Maha Jouini

Maha Jouini (born 1987 ) is a Tunisian author and blogger, a human rights defender, and an artificial intelligence expert who lived in China.

Background and education She has a Master in Artificial Intelligence and New Technologies from Tianjin University of Education and Technology (China). She studied at the University of the Witwatersrand focusing on the institutional governance in Africa, particularly within the African Union Commission. She worked in the African Union campaign to end child marriage in Africa as the media coordinator where she wasbased in Ethiopia from late 2014 to 2017. She is the founder of the African Center for Artificial Intelligence and Digital Technology.

Awards and honours Top 20 Woman Change makers pioneers in MENA by UNESCO and The Asfari Institute for Civil Society and Citizenship at AUB in 2022. Context-Aware Africa-Led Designing of Responsible Artificial Intelligence Technologies. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13552074.2022.2136432 Meha Jouini: The internet has allowed me to publicly express my identity as an Amazigh woman activist