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An audience challenge distinguishes knowing coverage from making an intervention work in users’ hands.

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Linda RaftreeFounder · The MERL Tech InitiativeLinkedIn ↗
Varaidzo MatimbaAI+Africa Lead · The MERL Tech InitiativeLinkedIn ↗
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Varaidzo MatimbaAI+Africa Lead · The MERL Tech InitiativeLinkedIn ↗
Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗

An audience challenge distinguishes knowing coverage from making an intervention work in users’ hands.

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Attributed contributors: Linda Raftree; Varaidzo Matimba; Caryl Feldacker. “An audience challenge distinguishes knowing coverage from making an intervention work in users’ hands..” Connected ≠ Ready: Getting to a Ground-Level View of AI Readiness for Women and Vulnerable Populations. ECOSYSTEM Summit, Barcelona, 16 September 2026. Session time 1:17:00–1:18:25. https://cs-ecosystem.commonshare.workers.dev/evidence/E-ddd46cfc18c3

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Analyst synthesis. The recording establishes that a claim was made. It does not independently establish the claimed effect.

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An audience challenge distinguishes knowing coverage from making an intervention work in users’ hands.

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Linda RaftreeFounder · The MERL Tech InitiativeLinkedIn ↗
Varaidzo MatimbaAI+Africa Lead · The MERL Tech InitiativeLinkedIn ↗
Caryl FeldackerSenior Program Officer, Data and Technology Adoption, Gender Equality Division · Gates FoundationSpeaking in a personal capacityLinkedIn ↗
Unidentified audience participant

Proposed mechanism: Targeting information does not establish usability or effectiveness.

Limit: Question exposes a missing inference, not proof that all tools fail.

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