CDAC Network Community of Practice
Artifical intelligence
Interested in the opportunities artificial intelligence (AI) poses for more efficient and effective delivery of humanitarian aid, or its potential to empower community-led action? Concerned that the sector has rushed to embrace AI without considering possible impacts on crisis-affected communities?
CDAC Network offers members access to a Community of Practice to advance consensus-building, thought leadership and collective learning on AI and crisis-affected communities. We also host the Standards and Assurance Framework for Ethical AI (SAFE AI) Project.
Together, we’re seizing this window of opportunity to ensure that AI is used safely and accountably in humanitarian settings and that its design and governance are driven by crisis-affected people.
To join CDAC Network and access the AI Community of Practice, contact info@cdacnetwork.org
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SAFE AI Framework
Addressing power dynamics in participatory AI for crisis-affected communities (beta)
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SAFE AI Framework
Co-Design vs. User-Centred Design for AI Solutions (beta)
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CLEAR Global
Guide: Co-creating digital tools with crisis-affected people
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Save the Children
Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Child Protection: An Ethical Roadmap?
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Nesta, CDAC, DFS and HLA
Online course: Community crisis intelligence: elevating community voices with AI
Upcoming events
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CDAC and MERL Tech AI CoP
6 August 2025 | 09.00-10:30 ET / 14.00-15:30pm BST / 16.00-17:30 EAT
Joint Community of Practice call with Humanitarian AI+MERL Working Group to discuss humanitarian accountability needs amidst the growing AI conversation. Register here.
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September AI CoP
Date TBC
Join us for our monthly Community of Practice call for CDAC members.
CDAC AI updates
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Why we urgently need a humanitarian manifesto for AI
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The clock is ticking to build guardrails into humanitarian AI – CDAC article for The New Humanitarian
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In the age of AI, how do we scale digital opportunities and secure safer information landscapes for people caught in conflict?
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Who shapes global narratives in today’s AI-enabled world – and what do conflict-affected communities and humanitarians need to know?
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The digital frontier: ICRC’s Director-General on the information landscape in conflict
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Start ups, trust and letting go: technology and power in aid
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Algorithmic injustice: a relational ethics approach – from CDAC keynote Dr Abeba Birhane
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Artificial intelligence and machine learning in armed conflict: a human-centred approach – from CDAC member ICRC
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Language AI for social impact: a playbook on how to use language technology for community engagement – from CDAC member CLEAR Global
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International humanitarian law and policy on techplomacy – from CDAC member ICRC
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The AI digital divide: an African perspective – from CDAC member Internews
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Public interest infrastructure – from CDAC member International Media Support
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Harnessing AI for child protection: an ethical roadmap? – from CDAC member Save the Children
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Reframing AI governance through a political economy lens – from CDAC member WACC
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Humanitarian AI revisited: seizing the potential and sidestepping the pitfalls – from expert Sarah Spencer
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Massive open online course (MOOC): Humanitarian action in the digital age
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A framework for the ethical use of advanced data science methods in the humanitarian sector – Data Science & Ethics Group
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Podcast on the complex relationship between AI and humanitarian aid – from expert Sarah Spencer
Join our community
To join CDAC’s Participatory AI community of practice, you must work for a CDAC Network member organisation. Please get in touch by filling in the form to the left or contacting ila.rutten@cdacnetwork.org.
To contribute a CDAC member organisation’s resource to our AI portal, contact info@cdacnetwork.org
To contribute a CDAC member organisation’s resource to our AI portal, contact info@cdacnetwork.org