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The closure of Koko Networks highlights the fragile intersection of climate innovation, carbon finance, and regulatory uncertainty in Africa. Despite serving over a million Kenyan households with clean cooking fuel, the company’s collapse reveals how unclear approval processes, carbon market dependence, and policy risks can undermine promising climate enterprises.

Africa’s healthcare challenges demand locally built AI solutions grounded in context. From data and infrastructure to policy and education, supporting local innovators is key to creating trusted, scalable systems. By investing in homegrown talent and enabling environments, the continent can reduce reliance on foreign technologies and build resilient, people-centered health systems for the future.

The power of artificial intelligence (AI) seems to promise easy solutions to many intractable problems faced by organizations in the global South, whether their focus is medicine, public health, education, agriculture and food systems, or business. While AI is a compelling tool for research, the reality of implementing AI fairly and equitably is more challenging&#8230;. <a class="view-article" href="https://ai4d.ai/blog/what-does-it-take-to-achieve-integration-of-gender-equality-and-inclusion-gei-in-ai4d-research/">View Article</a>