IST-Africa Policy on Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI)

Any use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (including but not limited to Generative-AI) in the context of IST-Africa Conferences must be transparent, appropriate and ethical.

Authors

Authors (which includes all co-authors) are required to include a Declaration of use of content generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (including but not limited to Generative-AI) in the paper in the Acknowledgement Section of submitted papers. This policy was introduced from IST-Africa 2024. See Paper Guidelines and Paper Template

Authors are required to declare if and how AI tools or content generated by AI (including but not limited to Generative-AI) was used in any way in papers submitted for double blind peer review and publication.

Declaration of use of content generated by Artificial Intelligence must be included in the Acknowledgement Section of all papers submitted for review and publication. See Paper Guidelines and Paper Template

Intellectual content (including research ideas), research data (including data collection where appropriate), methodological design, analysis and discussion of results (including interpretation of findings) as well as conclusions should be developed independently by authors.

Any use of Artificial Intelligence (including but not limited to Generative-AI) must be appropriate. Authors have full responsibility for the scientific content and originality of their work.

Where Artificial Intelligence (including but not limited to Generative-AI) has not been used, a declaration that "there has been no use of content generated by Artificial Intelligence (AI) (including but not limited to text, figures, images, and code)" is appropriate.

A non-native speaker may explain how they used a specific tool for language refinement (e.g. grammar, spelling) and stylistic editing purposes.

Where AI has been used for any other content related purposes (e.g. generation of figures, image, text, sample code), this must be transparently disclosed, including the specific tools used and for what purpose.

AI-generated papers should not be submitted. Where such papers are identified, they will be subject to rejection or withdrawal.

Technical Reviewers

All technical reviewers are expected to use their professional and thematic expertise to evaluate the quality, relevance and scientific contribution of papers submitted for review.

Technical reviewers must not use AI tools for reviewing purposes, both to protect the confidentiality of authors' unpublished intellectual property as well as protect the integrity and accountability of the double blind peer review process.