Context

political, cultural and technical factors shaping your use of ai

This card covers the political, cultural, and technical factors around your use of AI. A tool that fits one newsroom or country may not fit another, given laws, languages, audience trust, and local norms. Naming this context early keeps you from building something that does not belong where it will be used.

Questions to explore

// use these as prompts in a workshop or on your own. There are no right answers.

What local laws or rules shape what this tool is allowed to do with data?
How does your audience feel about AI being used in the journalism they read?
What cultural or language factors does the tool need to respect to work here?
What technical limits, like connectivity or budget, shape what is realistic?
How might the political setting affect how this tool is seen or used?

Expert voices

// notes from the journalists and AI experts who helped shape this kit

“AI is not only for big, wealthy newsrooms. With limited resources, start with free tools, focus on mobile-optimized apps if your team works from phones, and test everything on the devices your team actually uses.”

Mwende Mukwanyaga, AI Salon

Things to consider

A tool that fits one context can fail in another for non-technical reasons.
Audience trust in AI varies, so weigh how openly you use it.
Check the legal and cultural ground before you build, not after.

using this card

Pull Context when it is relevant and set it aside when it is not. Pair it with the other AI Solutions cards, lay them out on a table, and use the questions above to get everyone on the same page. Capture what you discuss on sticky notes or in a shared doc.