A tool that people trust with their minds cannot govern itself. Genscore's safeguards are written down, independently monitored, and reported upward: to the board, to the funder, and to the communities the work belongs to.
An operational layout mapping institutional oversight, executive leadership, and multi-sectoral technical collaborations.
The Genscore Ethical Charter and governance framework is a core project deliverable, not an afterthought. Its companion, the Human Oversight Charter, is co-authored with the Lived Experience Working Group and defines the ethical standards for how adapted assessments may be used.
Roles, responsibilities and decision rights set out in advance, with conflict-of-interest declarations from everyone in an oversight position.
Clear risk thresholds, Levels 1 to 3, each triggering a defined rapid response. Nobody improvises when something goes wrong.
SOPs govern day-to-day conduct, and incident audits check that practice matches the paperwork.
Governance performance, data integrity and ethical compliance are tracked monthly, not remembered annually.
Formal reporting to oversight bodies and the funder every quarter, with minutes on record.
Independent auditors review the whole apparatus once a year, and their findings travel upward, unedited.
An independent board of international experts spanning AI ethics, global mental health and Nigerian law. It meets bimonthly, commissions regular bias audits of the model, and receives the reports and meeting minutes of every oversight body on the project. Its findings go to the funder as well as the team, so accountability cannot be filtered on the way up.
Ethical approval from the Nigerian National Health Research Ethics Committee (NHREC) and the Health and Human Services Secretariat in Abuja, plus the institutional review boards of every collaborating institution. Not one recording is made before all approvals are secured.
Written informed consent or assent is obtained in each participant's preferred language, so agreement is genuine understanding rather than a signature on a form.
All personal information is anonymised and de-identified before any analysis begins. The corpus itself, GENSCORE v2.0, is fully anonymised by design.
Data is encrypted and stored securely with restricted access, in line with Nigerian data protection law and international frameworks, with data minimisation applied throughout.
Responsiveness and referral pathways are established before data collection begins, so a participant who needs support is connected to it, not just recorded.
The project applies beneficence, non-maleficence and justice: protecting participants from harm, ensuring their voices are not dismissed, and refusing to reproduce the biases already present in existing data.
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