Participants will be exposed to ideas and advancements around how to use AI in the newsroom from content gathering, content production, and content distribution. Using African newsrooms like Centre for Innovation and Technology use of Alice News reader anchor as a case study, we will delve into the current unregulated landscape, highlighting the potential impact on news consumption. By embracing AI African newsrooms educate their audiences this will get picked up civic organizations, and policymakers which can lobby more effectively for AI policies, frameworks which are Afrocentric so as to avoid bias and misrepresentation from the African users perspective. . Additionally, attendees will gain invaluable insights into the sociocultural implications of AI within the African context, shedding light on underrepresented perspectives. Our lightning talk will showcase practical strategies for African newsrooms and audiences to harness AI, addressing unique challenges that may arise, distinct from those encountered in the global north. We will organize a digital conference session with both offline and online interaction. The lighting Talk will start with a roundtable discussion among physically present participants, led by an onsite facilitator. Then, the same facilitator will pose questions to virtual panelists. Next, there will be a Q&A session, beginning with questions from the physical audience, then virtual ones. We will use Zoom,X and livestream on YouTube, managed by an onsite digital moderator who will monitor feedback and questions .In addition, a hashtag for the session would be used in conjunction with any other IGF hashtags. The on-site digital moderator in addition to engaging in social media, They will gather any question comments and remarks for the plenary session.
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