Jackie Akello has a background in law and specialises in technology law and policy. She conducts research on intellectual property, technology and society from a multidisciplinary and multi-jurisdictional perspective. Her work revolves around the synergetic relationship between the law, social norms, ethics, technologies, commerce and society. Her work at Research ICT Africa involves research, policy analysis and capacity building on key projects on AI and data governance. She has worked on projects such as the Global Index on Responsible AI, which seeks to examine and build evidence on the implementation of responsible AI principles across the globe. She has also worked in collaboration with the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI) and the Montreal International Center of Expertise in Artificial Intelligence (CEIMIA) on the Government Data Sharing Project, where her team developed illustrative case studies that provided practical examples of government data sharing with AI developers and developed principles on responsible data sharing. Jackie is currently involved in the capacity building of African parliamentarians and African Union Regional Economic Communities (RECs), providing training on data governance, trans-border data flows and the harmonisation of the African Union Data Policy Framework. She is also involved in the development of the African Union Data Policy Framework curriculum for African policy makers and the D4D Project on trans-border data flows.
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