Hi everyone!
At next week's Change seminar (May 16th), we will be hearing from Jake Okechukwu Effoduh from Osgoode Hall Law School. Jake's talk is titled "An African Perspective to Regulating Self-Driving Cars." ( We will also have Thai for our wonderful attendees 👀 )
Check out our website: www.change.washington.edu!
Description
Self-driving cars as a mode of transportation in Africa is probably more of a ‘when’ than an ‘if’ question. These autonomous vehicles that could benefit human safety by reducing human deaths from car crashes, may disadvantage Africans if the production of the technology does not adequately reflect African perspectives, including in the ethical constructions about rulemaking.
Resources for Attendees
Seminar Details
Location: Tuesdays from 12-1pm in 271 CSE2 (The Bill and Melinda Gates Center)
Presenter Bio
Jake Okechukwu Effoduh (He/Him/They) is a Vanier Scholar at the Osgoode Hall Law School, conducting doctorate research on the Legitimization of Artificial Intelligence in Africa. He is also a Queen Elizabeth Advanced Scholar with the Open Africa Innovation Research (OpenAIR), and a Partner at Praxis & Gnosis Law in Nigeria. He founded Law2Go in 2018, a digital library of human rights laws and legal services for Nigeria and he has been a human rights lawyer since 2011. With a demonstrated history of advocacy across domestic and international systems, Effoduh has worked within the justice sector in Nigeria, the West African ECOWAS human rights system, the African Human Rights Commission, and the UN Human Rights Council.