PROSPECTS podcast series
Episode 4 - Harnessing artificial intelligence for refugee empowerment
25 April 2024
Episode description:
AI innovation presents both challenges and opportunities in the job market, paving the way for new business models.
The fourth episode of the podcast series focuses on the potential of AI-related employment opportunities in promoting the economic inclusion of conflict-affected communities.
Hester Gartrell, Chief Impact Officer and Interim Director for Humans in the Loop, offers insights on the potential of AI to expand work opportunities for young people in displacement contexts, and how their social enterprise combines upskilling programmes with paid annotation work. Gartrell also shares the added value of local partnerships in overcoming barriers to digital and financial access in fragile settings.
Speaker
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Hester GartrellChief Impact Officer and interim Director at Humans in the Loop FoundationHester Gartrell is Chief Impact Officer and interim Director at Humans in the Loop Foundation, an award winning Social Enterprise focusing on providing digital upskilling and remote work to people affected by conflict. As Chief Impact Officer, Hester oversees all of the HITL Foundation's digital training programmes and pilot work projects which offer a unique stepping stone for people affected by conflict to access the global digital economy and the world of AI. In previous roles, Hester has worked with universities and NGOs to create programmes which aim to empower marginalised groups through education and community engagement including at The Children's Society and Birkbeck, University of London. She also has a MSc in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies with a focus on children's rights in Islam.
See also
Promotion, inclusion and protection of refugees and host communities in the gig economy