Maha Jouini

Maha Jouini (born 1987) is a Tunisian author and blogger, a human rights defender, and an artificial intelligence expert who lived in China.

Background and education She has a Master in Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies from Tianjin University of Education and Technology (China). She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand, focusing on the institutional governance in Africa, particularly within the African Union Commission.

Career She is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence and art at Tianjin University of Science and Technology where she contributed to Sino-African relations. She was employed as the Digital Communication officer at the African Union Development Agency (AUDA-NEPAD) where she worked in the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa as a media coordinator based in Ethiopia from late 2014 to 2017. She is also a member of African Union's AI Task Force with the aim to advance the African Union’s strategy for the ethical use of artificial intelligence in Africa. She is the vice-president of African & Francophone Agency for AI and former researcher at AI Global Index. She was named the personality of the year in 2018 by the Maghreb Voices platform because of her role as a social media influencer. She is known in the Arab region as a human rights defender and has participated in international conferences on women’s and indigenous people’s issues. She was a research fellow at the Global Center on AI Governance. She is the founder of the African Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology. She also served as the African Regional Coordinator at the Global Responsible AI hackathon 2023 launched by Woman in AI Ethics Initiative. She was the 2015 African School on Internet Governance (AfriSIG) fellow.

Awards and honours Top 20 Woman Change makers pioneers in MENA by UNESCO and The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at AUB in 2022. Named "Personality of the Year" by Maghreb Voices in 2018.

Publications

AI and Data Policy in Africa: A Call for Sovereign Innovation Context-Aware Africa-Led Designing of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Technologies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2022.2136432 Meha Jouini: The internet has allowed me to publicly express my identity as an Amazigh woman activist

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