Evaluating Impact and Scaling Progress through Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships
Sumaya Adan, an Oxford Martin AI Initiative researcher from Kenya, asks ‘How has AI impacted SDG 1, poverty alleviation in low-resource contexts, over the past decade, and what lessons can inform prioritising and scaling AI solutions through public-private-people partnerships to accelerate progress by 2030?’ To answer these questions, Adan will develop a framework of relevant AI capabilities, review low-resource, AI-based poverty alleviation interventions between 2010-2020, identify key success factors, challenges and unintended consequences, and engage diverse stakeholders. She will then develop a set of plausible scenarios for the future of AI in poverty alleviation, assess the potential interactions and dependencies between AI capabilities, SDG 1 targets, and external factors, identify the most promising AI applications and partnership models for accelerating progress, and recommend policies for scaling them.