Development
The MD4SG Development working group fosters collaboration and discussion amongst practitioners and academics to understand and tackle issues pertaining to the role and application of technology in addressing challenges in emerging nations and under-resourced settings. We study how techniques from algorithm and mechanism design, computational social science, and optimization can inform and help advance existing development policies and practices.
Ongoing Projects #
Vaccine sharing behaviour in the COVID-19 pandemic: the impact of narratives and peer effects #
- Authors: Michelle González Amador, Simon Finster, Edwin Lock
- Project Summary: Our incentivised experiment provides evidence that the willingness to give towards vaccines in low- and middle-income countries is guided more strongly by altruism than self-interest, and is influenced by peer effects. In our study, more than 800 GBP were donated to the COVAX vaccine access initiative.
Directory to Promote Collaboration #
- Project Summary: One of the challenges of enacting MD4SG is often making connections. Our goal is to create a directory to support making connections between researchers, stakeholders, and students from all over the world. We hope this will lower the barrier to starting this important work.
Past Projects #
- Rediet Abebe, Irene lo, Dina Machuve, Francisco Marmolejo-Cossío, Moses Namara, Ezinne Nwankwo, and Mwiza Simbeya. “Market and Mechanism Design Challenges in African Agriculture”. In preparation.
- Ezinne Nwankwo, Chinasa T. Okolo, Cynthia Habonimana. “Topic Modeling Approaches for Understanding COVID-19 Misinformation Spread in Sub-Saharan Africa.” In the AI for Social Good Workshop (Harvard University CRCS), 2020.
- Chinasa T. Okolo*, Michelle Gonzalez Amador*. “ACIPS: A Framework for Evaluating Patient Perception in the Introduction of AI-enabled Healthcare.” Accepted to the Data4Good: Designing for Diversity and Development workshop at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
- Okolo, Chinasa and MD4SG Working Group on Development. COVID-19 in the Global South Part 1. https://medium.com/eaamo/covid-19-in-the-global-south-4ceefeb09165
Working Group Organizers #
| Cynthia Habonimana | Machine Learning Researcher | Mirza |
| Elizabeth Bondi-Kelly | Postdoctoral Fellow, Incoming Assistant Professor | MIT, University of Michigan |
| Nuredin Ali | PhD Student | Universiy of Minnesota |
Working Group Members #
| Michelle González Amador | Ph.D. Fellow | UNU-MERIT / Maastricht University |
| Tejumade Afonja | Doctoral Researcher / Co-founder | Cispa Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Saarland University / AI Saturdays Lagos |
| illenin kondo | Senior Research Economist | Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis |
| Siphelele Danisa | MSc Graduate | University of Toronto |
| Olumurejiwa Fatunde | Postdoc | Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto |
| Simon Finster | Postdoc | CREST-ENSAE, Paris |
| Edwin Lock | Research Fellow | Nuffield College, University of Oxford |
| Chinasa Okolo | Ph.D. Student in Computer Science | Cornell University |
| Kennedy Rodgers Odongo | ||
| Ajani Adedeji | ||
| Azubuike Prince Chinazaekpere | ||
| Melsew Belachew | ||
| Abdulakeem Yusuf Ademola | ||
| Ma. Cristina Bargo | ||
| Owolafe Otasowie | Federal University of Technology, Akure | |
| Olukayode Akanni | ||
| Ruben Martinez-Cardenas | ||
| Al-Bashir Muhammad | ||
| Calvin Williams | ||
| Vijay Keswani | ||
| Genevieve Smith | PhD Candidate | Oxford |
| Charles Van-Hein Sackey | PhD Student | CMU |
| George Obaido | ||
| Idowu Aruleba |