2026
2026
Teanna Barrett, B. Biira, Jainaba
Jawara, Andrew Shaw, Ziwei Dong, Chinasa T. Okolo, Seyi Olojo, Keerthana Kompella
Khadija Saho, Amy X. Zhang, and Leilani Battle. "Moral
Missions: Sustaining Responsible Practice by Surfacing Practitioner Moral Decision-Making
Procedures." AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES).
Conference Paper
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Advancing Global Inclusion in International AI Cooperation: An Analysis of African Engagement." To
appear in the Tayarisha Working Papers Series on "Digital Governance Politics and Management: A
view from the Global South".
Working Paper
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Datafication and Postcolonial Discontinuities: Analyzing the Sociodigital Exploitation of
Africa."
In the Handbook of Critical Data Studies. Edited by Ulises A. Mejias, Jasmine
McNealy, and Milagros Miceli. De Gruyter.
Book Chapter
2026
Makuochi S. Nkwo, Muhammad Adamu,
Francis Brako, Chinasa T. Okolo, and Rita Orji .
"Challenges, Paradoxes and Lessons for Inclusive AI Governance: an Interdisciplinary Analysis of
Corporate Initiatives." In AI and Ethics. Springer Nature.
Journal Article
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Catalyzing
AI Governance and Democratic Resilience in Africa." In ACM SIGCAS Computers
and Society Spring
2026 Newsletter, ACM.
Article
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Examining Policy Barriers for AI Startup Growth in Africa." In the AI Made in Africa
Series. Global Center on AI Governance and GIZ African Union.
Policy Brief
2026
Genevieve Smith, Hiral Patel,
Steven Luo, Monica Bobra, Judy Brewer, Cathryn Carson, Isadora Cruxen, Shachee Doshi, Maximilian
Gahntz, Nicholas Garcia, Natalia Luka, Meredith Lee, Min Kyung Lee, Woohyeuk Lee, Jarrod Millman,
Ricardo Mirron Torres, Chinasa T. Okolo, Cailean Osborne, Derek Slater, Katie
Steen-James, Nikko Stevens, Jennifer Tridgell, and David Gray Widder. "Reimagining
Open Source and Openness in AI: Co-Creating Responsible Technological Futures." ACM
Conference on Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT).
Conference Paper
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Mubarak Raji. "The Majority World in Global AI Governance." In the Handbook on the Global
Governance of AI. Edited by Markus Furendal and Magnus Lundgren. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Book Chapter
2026
Vidisha Mishra, Chinasa T.
Okolo, and Imane Bello. "We've
Spent Four Years Talking About Governing AI. Geneva Has to Actually Do It." Science
Politics. Georgetown University.
Op-Ed
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"The
Paradox of an 'Open' Internet and AI Realities in the Global Majority." European University
Institute.
Report
2026
Sacha Alanoca and Chinasa
T. Okolo. "What Got
Lost in the Global AI Summit Circuit?" TechTank. The Brookings Institution.
Op-Ed
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Strategic
Geopolitical Competition and Africa's AI Future." Just Tech. Social Science
Research Council.
Article
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Global
Majority Countries Must Embed Critical Minerals into AI Governance." Science.
Article
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Corporate
Interests Must Not Co-Opt Africa's AI Moment." The Pan-African Review.
Op-Ed
2026
Gathoni Ireri, Cecil Abungu, Jean
Cheptumo, Sienka Dounia, Mark Gitau, Stephanie Kasaon, Michael Michie, Chinasa T.
Okolo, Jonathan Shock. "Assessing
the Case for Africa-Centric AI Safety Evaluations." ILINA Program.
Preprint
2026
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Priorities
for U.S. Participation in International AI Capacity-Building." Lawfare.
Article
2025
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI
Governance in a Global Context: Policy and Regulatory Approaches." In the 2025 Network
Readiness Index. Portulans Institute.
Policy Report
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"The High
Cost of U.S. Absence from Global AI Partnerships." The Opinion Pages.
Op-Ed
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Balancing
Global Majority AI Ambitions with Environmental Considerations.". In ACM SIGCAS
Computers
and Society Winter
2025 Newsletter, ACM.
Article
2025
Sumaya Nur Adan, Joanna Wiaterek,
Varun Sen Bahl, Ima Bello, Camila Beltran, Tobias Dierks, Luise Eder, Liam Epstein, Abra Ganz,
Natalie Kiilu, Marianne Lu, Chinasa T. Okolo, Sydney Reis, Said Saillant, Krishna
Sharma, Marjia Siddik, Jan Pieter Snoeij, José Jaime Villalobos, and Anna Yelizarova. "AI
Benefit-Sharing Framework: Balancing Access and Safety." Oxford Martin AI Governance
Initiative.
Policy Report
2025
Kevin R.B. Butler, Sunny Consolvo,
Katie Siek, Tammy Toscos, ..., Chinasa T. Okolo, et al. "Supporting
At-Risk Users Through Responsible Computing." Computing Research Association (CRA).
Technical Report
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Governance of AI-based Algorithms." In the Handbook of
Human-Centered AI. Edited by Wei Xu. Springer.
Book Chapter
2025
Michelle Du and Chinasa T.
Okolo. "Reimagining
the Future of Data and AI Labor in the Global South." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"The
Paradox of AI Accelerationism and the Promise of Public Interest AI." Science.
Article
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI-Generated
Propaganda Threatens African Democracy." Democracy in Africa.
Article
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI is Not
Africa’s Savior: Avoiding Technosolutionism in Digital Development." TechTank. The
Brookings Institution.
Policy Commentary
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Generative
AI Versus African Democracies." Issue 206. The Continent.
Article
2025
Abigail Oppong, Hellina Nigatu, and
Chinasa T. Okolo. "Examining
the Cultural Encoding of Gender Bias in LLMs for Low-Resourced African Languages." In the Workshop
on Gender Bias for Natural Language Processing at the Annual Meeting of the
Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).
Workshop Paper
2025
Teanna Barrett, Chinasa T.
Okolo, B. Biira, Eman Sherif, Amy X. Zhang, and Leilani Battle. "African
Data Ethics: A Discursive Framework for Black Decolonial AI." In the ACM Conference on
Fairness, Accountability and Transparency (FAccT).
Conference Paper
2025
Joanna Wiaterek, Cecil Abungu, and
Chinasa T. Okolo. "Building
regional capacity for AI safety and security in Africa." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Re-envisioning
AI safety through global majority perspectives." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2025
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI Safety
is a Misnomer Without Global Majority Inclusion." Compiler.
Article
2025
Yung-Hsuan Wu, Nitya Kuthiala,
Joanna Wiaterek, Jonas Kgomo, and Chinasa T. Okolo. "Through the Praxis Lens:
Approaching the AI Lifecycle with Ethnographic Methods." Participatory AI Research & Practice
Symposium.
Symposium Paper
2025
Claire Dennis, Sam Manning, Stephen
Clare, Boxi Wu, Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Chinasa T. Okolo, Lennart Heim, and Katya
Klinova. "Options
and Motivations for International AI Benefit Sharing." Centre for the Governance of AI
(GovAI).
Policy Paper
2025
Katherine Grillaert, Matt Kennedy,
and Chinasa T. Okolo. "Risks of
State-Led AI Governance in a Federal Policy Vacuum." Tech Policy Press.
Op-Ed
2025
Yoshua Bengio et al. "International
AI Safety Report 2025." The United Kingdom Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
(DSIT).
Technical Report
2024
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Marie Tano. "Closing
the gap: A call for more inclusive language technologies." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Policy
Report: Examining AI in Low and Middle-Income Countries." Friedrich Naumann Foundation for
Freedom.
Policy Report
2024
Sumaya N. Adan, Robert Trager,
Kayla Blomquist, Claire Dennis, Gemma Edom, Lucia Velasco, Cecil Abungu, Ben Garfinkel, Julian
Jacobs, Chinasa T. Okolo, Boxi Wu, Jai Vipra. "Voice and
Access in AI: Global AI Majority Participation in Artificial Intelligence Development and
Governance." Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.
Policy Report
2024
Hongjin Lin, Naveena Karusala,
Chinasa T. Okolo, Catherine D'Ignazio, and Krzysztof Gajos. " 'Come to
us first': Centering Community Organizations in Artificial Intelligence for Social Good
Partnerships." In the Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction (PACM).
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Hongjin Lin. "Explainable
AI in Practice: Practitioner Perspectives on AI for Social Good and User Engagement in the
Global South." In the ACM Conference on Equity and Access in Algorithms, Mechanisms, and
Optimization (EAAMO).
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Marie Tano. "Moving
toward truly responsible AI development in the global AI market." TechTank. The
Brookings Institution.
Research
Commentary
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Examining
the capabilities and risks of advanced AI systems." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Operationalizing
Comprehensive Data Governance in Africa." In the African Journal of Sustainable
Development (AJSD) Special Issue: “Redefining African Futures: The State, Resilience, and
Pathways to Progress.” Edited in partnership with the UN Office of the Special Advisor on
Africa (OSAA) and the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN).
Journal Article
2024
Kadijatou Diallo, Jonathan Smith,
Chinasa T. Okolo, Dorcas Nyamwaya, Jonas Kgomo, and Richard Ngamita. "Case
Studies of AI Policy Development in Africa." In the Data for Policy Conference,
Data & Policy, Cambridge University Press.
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"African
Democracy in the Era of Generative Disinformation: Challenges and Countermeasures Against
AI-Generated Propaganda." In the Building a Just AI Ecosystem in Africa Conference,
Research ICT Africa.
Conference Paper
2024
Microsoft Research Africa, Nairobi.
"AI and the
Future of Work in Africa." Microsoft.
White Paper
2024
UK Government Secretariat and
Mila-Quebec AI Institute. "International
Scientific Report on the Safety of Advanced AI - Interim Report." United Kingdom Department
for Science, Innovation, and Technology (DSIT).
Technical Report
2024
Charles Asiegbu and Chinasa
T. Okolo. "How AI is
Impacting Policy Processes and Outcomes in Africa." TechTank. The Brookings
Institution.
Research
Commentary
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Beyond AI
Hype: A Hands-on Workshop Series for Enhancing AI Literacy in Middle and High School
Students." In the Conference for Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in
Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT).
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Hongjin Lin. " 'You
can’t build what you don’t understand': Practitioner Perspectives on Explainable AI in the
Global South." In the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo,
Dhruv Agarwal, Aditya Vashistha, Nicola Dell. " 'If it is
easy to understand then it will have value': Examining Perceptions of Explainable AI with
Community Health Workers in Rural India." In the Proceedings of the ACM on
Human-Computer Interaction (PACM), Volume 8, Issue CSCW1, Article No. 71.
Conference Paper
2024
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Reforming
Data Regulation to Advance AI Governance in Africa." Foresight Africa. The
Brookings Institution.
Research
Commentary
2024
African Union Development Agency
(AUDA-NEPAD). "AUDA-NEPAD
White Paper: Regulation and Responsible Adoption of AI in Africa Towards Achievement of AU
Agenda 2063." African Union.
White Paper
2024
African Union Development Agency
(AUDA-NEPAD). "AUDA-NEPAD
Artificial Intelligence Roadmap for Africa: Contributing Towards A Continental AU Strategy On
AI." African Union.
White Paper
2023
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI in the
Global South: Opportunities and challenges towards more inclusive governance."
TechTank. The Brookings Institution.
Research
Commentary
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Addressing
Global Inequity in AI Development." In the Handbook of Critical Studies of Artificial
Intelligence. Edited by Simon Lindgren. Edward Elgar Publishing.
Book Chapter
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"The
Promise and Perils of Generative AI: Case Studies in an African Context." In the African
Conference for Human Computer Interaction (AfriCHI).
Conference Paper
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Navigating
the Limits of AI Explainability: Designing for Novice Technology Users in Low-Resource
Settings." In AIES '23: AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society.
Conference Paper
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI
Explainability in the Global South: Towards an Inclusive Praxis for Emerging Technology
Users." Dissertation. Cornell University.
Dissertation
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Towards a
Praxis for Intercultural Ethics in Explainable AI." In the Many Worlds of AI
Conference.
Conference Paper
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Michelle González Amador. "IAC: A
Framework for Enabling Patient Agency in the Use of AI-Enabled Healthcare."
Preprint
2023
Chinasa T. Okolo,
Kehinde Aruleba, and George Obaido. "Challenges
to Effective AI Adoption and Implementation in Africa." In Responsible AI in Africa -
Challenges and Opportunities, pp 35-64. Edited by Kutoma Wakunuma, Damian Eke, and Simi
Akintoye. Palgrave Macmillan UK.
Book Chapter
2022
2022
Chinasa T. Okolo,
Nicola Dell, and Aditya Vashistha. "Making AI
Explainable in the Global South: A Systematic Review." In the Conference on Computing
and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS).
Conference Paper
2022
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Optimizing
Human-centered AI for Healthcare in the Global South." Patterns, 100421. In Cell
Press.
Journal Article
2021
2021
Chinasa T. Okolo,
Srujana Kamath, Nicola Dell, and Aditya Vashistha. "'It cannot
do all of my work': Community Health Worker Perceptions of AI-Enabled Mobile Health Applications
in Rural India." In the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).
Conference Paper
2021
Alan Chan, Chinasa T.
Okolo, Zachary Terner, and Angelina Wang. "The Limits
of Global Inclusion in AI Development." In the Reframing Diversity in AI:
Representation, Inclusion & Power Workshop at the AAAI Conference on Artificial
Intelligence.
Workshop Paper
2020
2020
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"AI in the
'Real World': Examining the Impact of AI Deployment in Low-Resource Contexts." In the
Navigating the Broader Impacts of AI Research Workshop at the Annual Conference on Neural
Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
Workshop Paper
2020
Chinasa T. Okolo
and Michelle González Amador. "ACIPS: A
Framework for Evaluating Patient Perception in the Introduction of AI-enabled Healthcare."
In the Data4Good: Designing for Diversity and Development Workshop at the International
Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI).
Workshop Paper
2020
Ezinne Nwankwo, Chinasa T.
Okolo, and Cynthia Habonimana. "Topic
Modeling Approaches for Understanding COVID-19 Misinformation Spread in Sub-Saharan Africa."
In the Harvard CRCS Workshop on AI for Social Good.
Workshop Paper
2020
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"CNN/RNN Approaches for Irregular Pediatric Respiratory Motion Detection." In the Women in
Machine Learning Workshop at the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML).
Workshop Paper
2020
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Automated detection of irregular pediatric breathing movements." In the Women in Computer
Vision Workshop at the IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference
(CVPR).
Workshop Paper
2020
Chinasa T. Okolo.
"Privacy
and Security Implications of mHealth Applications in Sub-Saharan Africa." In the Cornell
Healthcare Review.
Article