Paul McNally

Founder, Develop AI, South Africa

Paul McNally is the Founder of Develop AI, an innovative company that reports on AI, builds AI focused projects and provides training on how to use AI responsibly. He is also the Founder of Develop Audio that produces investigative podcasts and guides journalists to produce audio projects of their own. In 2019 he created the voice note disinformation podcast What’s Crap on WhatsApp? And in 2017 he created the award-winning investigative podcast Alibi. In 2015 he started Citizen Justice Network, a project based at Wits University that trains community paralegals in South Africa and Kenya to be radio journalists. He has 16 awards, was a Visiting Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2016 and is the author of the non-fiction book “The Street” that exposed the corrupt relationship between the police and drug syndicates in Johannesburg.