15 Jul 2024

Fauna / Harnessing artificial intelligence to address organised environmental crime in Africa

This paper proposes practical recommendations that would allow AI-powered policing to make a real difference on the continent.

Artificial intelligence (AI) offers innovative solutions for addressing a range of illegal activities that impact Africa’s environment. This paper explores how AI is being used in Africa to provide intelligence on organised environmental crime, craft tools to assess its impact, and develop methods to detect and prevent environmental criminal activities. It discusses the challenges and opportunities AI poses for policing environmental crime in Africa, and proposes recommendations that would allow AI-powered policing to make a real difference on the continent.

 

About the author


Romi Sigsworth is a Research Consultant at the ISS’s ENACT Organised Crime Programme. She was previously an ISS Gender Specialist, and a Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation Senior Researcher. She has an M.St. in Women’s Studies from Oxford University.

 

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