To mark the next stage of Signal Library, Guest Curators highlight three resources—two discovered through Signal Library, and one exclusive resource from their own work—with context on why it matters for navigating developments in AI and education across low- and middle-income countries. Signal Library’s second Guest Curator is Angela Oduor Lungati, Executive Director of Ushahidi.
Angela’s work sits at the intersection of technology, ethics and community power across the Global South—a vantage point outside education specifically, but one that lands squarely on a question no education system can avoid: what should schools, training programmes and apprenticeships be preparing people for, if AI is reshaping the job market.
About our guest
Angela Oduor Lungati
Executive Director, Ushahidi
Angela Oduor Lungati is the Executive Director of Ushahidi, a global non-profit technology company empowering marginalised communities through innovative tools and open sharing. She explores the transformative power of AI in driving social impact and how open innovation fosters real-world change on a global scale.
ushahidi.com
Our first Guest Curator, Daniel Plaut, looked at how AI is being designed, framed and integrated within education systems themselves, from language representation in AI models to classroom pedagogy. Angela’s curation looks outward, at the wider world of work and knowledge-making that those systems are meant to prepare students for. Read together, the two curations bookend the same question from opposite ends: one asks what AI means once it’s inside the classroom, the other asks what it means for the world learners are heading into.
Here’s Angela’s curation:
1. China expands AI-related job list
🔎 Spotted by Signal Library’s Human-AI scanning system; Source: OpenGov Asia
Angela’s curatorial note: “This article caught my attention because it flips the dominant AI narrative. While much of the world is anxious about AI taking jobs, China is formally recognising 12 new occupations created by it, such as digital twin engineers, AI agent developers, embodied intelligence robot technicians. Over 20 of the 72 occupations added nationally in the past five years are AI-related. What interests me most is the deliberateness: it’s embedded in the 15th Five-Year Plan (2026–2030), treating employment expansion as something to be actively designed rather than hoped for.”
2. AI’s risk to early-career talent pipeline
🔎 Spotted by Signal Library’s Human-AI scanning system; Source: World Economic Forum
Angela’s curatorial note: “Everyone is chasing productivity right now. What we haven’t talked about enough is what this is doing to entry-level jobs. It’s easier and faster to hand a junior staffer’s work to AI, and companies are doing exactly that. Junior job postings fell 7% last year while senior roles grew. So I was glad to see leaders calling for caution in this article. Entry-level jobs are where judgment is built and where future leaders come from. Cut them, and you’re trading short-term gains for a broken talent pipeline. And the cost falls hardest on those without networks. This demands strategic thinking, not efficiency reflexes.”
3. The Social Edge of Intelligence
🔎 Angela Oduor Lungati’s independent selection; Source: The Ideas Letter
Angela’s curatorial note: “Bright Simons argues that AI may be undermining the conditions for its own advancement. These systems don’t think, they remember how we thought together as humans. Their intelligence was built from human interaction, argument, and collaboration. So the more we automate work and offload our thinking, the more that fabric thins. And the weaker future AI gets. What strikes me is the bigger pattern. Whether it’s protecting entry-level jobs or protecting how knowledge itself gets made, we keep being drawn back to our collective humanity. Even the machines, it seems, need us to keep talking to each other.”
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Extra Resources
You can find out more about the initiatives Angela is working on here:
Ushahidi—A global not-for-profit technology company that develops integrated tools and services to enable people to generate solutions and mobilize communities for good.
Distant Voices—An AI-powered platform developed by Ushahidi for ethical, multilingual, community-led data, built to surface lived experiences at scale and transform them into insights.
The Accelerator Programme at the University of Oxford—Angela joins the Accelerator Fellowship Programme, a pioneering initiative confronting the ethical challenges posed by AI technologies through insight, engagement and collaboration.
Thanks to Angela Oduor Lungati for her expert curation and to the team at Ushahidi.
*Photo credit of Angela: Ciaran McCrickard / World Economic Forum
Funding EdTech Hub’s AI Observatory is made possible with the support of the UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office.
