- Source
- Frontiers in Public Health
- Published
- 26 Mar 2026
- Authors
- Samuel Kakraba, E. Agyemang, Sudesh Srivastav
Excerpt from source
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes critical infrastructure for global health, it reproduces colonial patterns of extraction, mining data from the Global South to train models owned by the Global North. While international bodies like the WHO emphasize “ethical AI,” they often overlook the structural violence of this digital colonialism. This perspective argues that true health equity requires more than bias mitigation; it demands cognitive sovereignty: the right of communities to govern not just their data but also the epistemic logic, interpretive frameworks, and algorithmic reasoning of the systems that analyze it. Drawing from Indigenous data governance principles (OCAP/CARE) and…
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