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SDG 5

All goals · Goal 5

Gender equality

Green hillside farm plots in Limuru, Kiambu County, Kenya.

Food and farming · Kenya

How a Kenyan farmer's daughter uses AI and simple text messages to warn farmers about pests

Farmer Lifeline's solar-powered cameras watch small farms for pests and disease, then send an SMS that works on any phone, so women farmers with basic handsets can act in time.

Deployed · From the ITU 2026 report · 6 min read

A small white single-story rural health center with a veranda and a flag pole, in dry open bush land under a blue sky.

Health · Zambia

Zambian midwives get an AI second opinion in cervical screening

Dawa Health says its small in-clinic device, which sorts cervical photos without internet, has helped screen more than 3,500 women since late 2025. Accuracy results that outsiders can check are still to come, from a planned validation with UNFPA and Zambia's Ministry of Health.

Pilot · From the ITU 2026 report · 6 min read

Adult teachers sit in rows of pink auditorium chairs, most looking at phones or papers, during a training session in Abuja.

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.

Deployed · From the ITU 2025 report · 6 min read

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