FAIR Forward – Artificial Intelligence for All is a GIZ initiative aimed at promoting and achieving a more inclusive and sustainable approach to AI at the international level. This project sought to contribute to this goal through three pillars of work:

• Strengthening local AI technical know-how;
• Removing entry barriers to AI by improving access to AI technologies and data; and
• Developing policy frameworks, including ethical AI, data protection, and privacy guidelines.

DPA provided consulting services in the form of reports, guidelines, and advisory assistance under these pillars of work throughout 2021. As a result, reports and tools on subjects as diverse as the ethical use of machine learning for Earth observation, a gender-sensitive approach to AI, operating and business models to sustain open AI resources, and available data governance models for AI initiatives, among others, were produced for and incorporated by the GIZ FF initiative in its projects. In addition to this, DPA supported the creation and implementation of a data governance model in Uganda.