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Summary of the Discussion
The discussion kicked off with a brief introduction of our distinguished speaker, Jake Effoduh, a Vanier Scholar by our amiable moderator Dr. Jason McSparren.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jake Effoduh is a Human Right Lawyer and a Vanier Scholar at the Osgoode Hall Law School. He is also a Partner at Praxis & Gnosis Law Firm in Nigeria.
ABOUT THE MODERATOR
Dr. Jason J. McSparren is an educator, researcher, and administrator with a PhD. in Global Governance and Human Security from Massachusetts Boston.
Q&A
Dr McSparren: Good Afternoon Ladies and Gentlemen, Students, Practitioners. Welcome to The Green Room Episode 7. We're really pleased to have you with us today. We are going to have a great discussion. Our topic Today, we're going to be talking about 'Artificial Intelligence in Human Rights in Africa. We are looking at the Sustainable Development Impacts, our grant guest speaker Today is Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, and we like to welcome him to the Green Room Episode 7.
Jake is a human rights lawyer, with a demonstrated history of advocacy across domestic and international systems. He has worked within the Justice sector in Nigeria, the West African ECOWAS human rights system, the African Human Rights Commission and the United Nations Human Rights Council. Jake anchor two (2) nationwide radio programs in Nigeria for 12 years, which aired at over 150 stations across the country and earned him several international awards including winning the future Awards Africa for Community Action and the prestigious African broadcaster of the year award in 2016. Jake is a Vanier Scholar at the Osgoode Hall law school. He's conducted research on the legitimisation of artificial intelligence for human rights in Africa. Today Jake is going to present about his work on artificial intelligence and human rights in Africa. So, can we please welcome Jake? We can't hear your applause, but we should do hope that you are clapping. Please welcome Jake Okechukwu Effoduh. Thank you very much, everybody.
Jake Effoduh: Thank you. Thank you very much. Dr Jason McSparren. It is such an honour to be right here in The Green Room. Thank you for the great introduction and for the inspiration that you actually provide personally, professionally and on this platform as well. So I'm really happy to be here in The Green Room and to speak with you about things that I'm very passionate about human rights, artificial intelligence, sustainable development and you know and environmental justice. These are things that really matter to us right now, especially with what we're going through. So it's an honour to share my humble insights and to engage. I hope this would be a collaborative platform where you can ask questions. I can ask questions because you're doing pretty much similar work as I'm doing as well so we can both learn and have a relative discourse on this. So thank you so much.
Dr McSparren: Okay, Jake. If you wouldn't mind audience would like to hear a few of a little summary of your work, if you could give us a little bit of your background on artificial intelligence and how it relates to Human Rights and environmental justice on the African continent, please.
Favourite Quote
“I think we cannot talk about human rights or AI without thinking about the environment. I think in this day and age with the kind of effects that we see in terms of climate change adaptation and mitigation, the environmental justice is something that needs to be at the forefront of every single thing that we do.”
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