JA Worldwide and Accenture Highlight AI’s Role in NGO Sustainability at GYEO Summit
September 13, 2024
JA Worldwide joined the 2024 Global Youth Economic Opportunities (GYEO) Summit this week in Washington, DC. Our CFO Adnan Bokhari, COO Caroline Jenner, and Prat Panda, Inclusive Business Lead, Accenture Development Partnerships, presented “Building NGO Resilience: Unlocking the Potential of AI for Social Impact Communication” on day 3 of the summit.
The GYEO Summit brings together more than 500 global stakeholders from 75+ countries each year to learn, advance evidence generation, share best practices and forge partnerships in the Youth Economic Opportunity (YEO) space. The Summit is the flagship learning and evidence generation convening of the YEO 2030 initiative, anchored in the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8.
“Caroline spearheads efforts at JA Worldwide, particularly to enhance reporting and communication,” Adnan explained. “This work aligns with JA’s role as an innovator taking a lead in leveraging what AI has to offer internally and externally to achieve our mission.”
“GenAI has emerged as one of the important topics to include in the summit and in particular,” Caroline added.
JA and Accenture’s session shared insights from JA's groundbreaking social impact measurement experiment. Participants explored how AI tools, including ChatGPT, can extract key insights across impact data, revolutionizing impact report analysis and automating impact summary creation. Prat, Caroline, and Adnan shared how the ChatGPT API version surpasses traditional methods, offering unparalleled capabilities in handling unstructured data. They also shared considerations and limitations, including the need for human oversight and understanding AI's reliance on input data.
“The AI for Impact Reporting work at JA Worldwide also connects with the organizational resilience work we are doing to make our network more sustainable,” Adnan continued. “JA Worldwide’s session at the GYEO Summit was an opportunity to show how we are building it and getting our ecosystem of youth-serving institutions engaged in the conversation so that we can make resilience our ecosystem’s superpower, which would enable us to serve more young people across the globe.”