All goals · Goal 10
Reduced inequalities
Accessibility · South Korea
AI helps Korean care staff understand challenging behavior
In Seoul, cameras now keep the behavior logs that care staff once wrote by hand, so specialists can work out what lies behind a person's distress.
Health · Benin, Mali, South Africa
How a team in Benin is testing AI that reads lung scans for tuberculosis
In a hospital study in Cotonou, an AI that reads handheld lung ultrasound caught 82% of TB cases, short of the WHO's 90% target for a triage test. A five-year trial in Benin, Mali and South Africa will show whether it works in local clinics.
Education · Palestine
How Gaza's universities keep teaching, and an offline AI idea for blackouts
With most campuses damaged or destroyed, Gaza's universities moved classes online and into temporary learning spaces. Al-Aqsa University has also proposed an offline AI tutor on solar-powered mini servers, a design still looking for partners.
Health · Lebanon, Jordan
A WhatsApp chatbot from Beirut helps people find health answers from trusted sources
HIBA answers everyday health questions by text or voice note, in 28 languages, using only curated WHO, IFRC and UNICEF material, and it will not diagnose. It was offered in Lebanon's displacement centers during the 2024 war and is still a small pilot with no independent results.
Public services · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Can AI help spot hate speech on community radio? A pilot in eastern DR Congo
A 2025 pilot recorded and transcribed broadcasts from ten community stations in Goma and Bukavu, flagged possible hate speech for people to check, and answered with radio programs. No results are public yet, and a research phase with ETH Zurich runs to 2027.
Gender equality · Nigeria
A former teacher's NGO brings AI to girls and teachers in Abuja's public schools
Rising Hope Girls has students turn their drawings into AI images about girls' rights. It also runs school computer labs, trains teachers and built ReadBuddy, a reading app that won an ITU award in July 2026. Its reach and reading results so far are self-reported.
Accessibility · United Kingdom
Meet the technologist with ALS who built an AI voice tool with his eyes
Bernard Muller designed SMF VoXAI using only eye tracking. It drafts replies in a conversation and speaks them in the user's own voice through an avatar. It is still a pilot, and no results have been published yet.