Community consent
Communities decide if and how their data is collected and used.
Data sovereignty
People, language, culture, and consent — first.
Some knowledge is sacred, local, private, communal, or context-specific. AI in Africa must respect that.
Not all data should be scraped, opened, or commercialized. Some knowledge is sacred, local, private, communal, or context-specific. AI in Africa must respect people, language, culture, and consent.
Local ownership
African institutions hold authoritative copies of their datasets.
Cultural sensitivity
Sacred, communal, or contextual knowledge is protected.
Dataset licensing
Use licenses that prevent extractive commercial use without consent.
Indigenous knowledge
Knowledge systems are credited and protected, not scraped.
Model transparency
Document data sources, limitations, and risks.
Benefit sharing
Communities must benefit when their data powers AI products.
Ethical scraping warnings
Audit before mass collection. Some data should never be scraped.