This week, Exchange.Design participated in a Technology Salon event, hosted by Forum One, centered on Generative AI, data governance, and international development. The discussions explored the evolution of artificial intelligence technologies and their potential to tackle global development challenges effectively. Exchange.Design contributed insights on the advancements in AI and reflected on both the data security risks and the transformative case studies demonstrating AI’s impact on major global issues.

Over the past year, our team has dedicated efforts to developing tools that empower organizations to securely and transparently leverage large language models in combination with their own internal content. Reflecting on extensive development and collaboration with some of our partners, we've gained insights that have helped to shape our thinking on how context augmented AI solutions can best support organizations that aim to tackle some of the world’s most pressing challenges.

On February 5-6, 2024, the Exchange Design team facilitated a hybrid training on data governance and AI for decision making for the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. We sat down with Barri Shorey, who coordinated the training for 20 staff at the Foundation headquarters in Westlake Village, California.

Elizabeth Njoroge and Nora Lindström launching the Digital Development Guidebook at the ICT4D Conference in Accra, Ghana. Photo credit: CRS/ICT4D Conference.