Workshop within the AI4D initiaitve in sub-Saharan Africa
T. Idriss Tinto, Aminata Sabane and Tegawendé F Bissyande
25 August, 2019
The AI for Development (AI4D) Initiative is pleased to announce the winners of the AI4D-Africa Innovation Call for Proposals 2019. Sign up and join us to celebrate the winners at Deep Learning Indaba 2019 at the #AI4D Network of Excellence Innovation Grant Award Ceremony: Tuesday, 27th August 2019 at 7 PM (Nairobi Time) (LOCATION UPDATE) […]
8 May, 2019
Based on the workshop ” Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa” – April 3-5, 2019 Nairobi, Kenya. Artificial intelligence is poised to enhance productivity, innovation and help countries across sub-Saharan Africa to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – helping to improve outcomes from health care to […]
7 May, 2019
El crecimiento de la potencia computacional, la disponibilidad de grandes cantidades de datos abiertos y el progreso de los algoritmos han hecho que la Inteligencia Artificial (IA) se convierta en una de las tecnologías más prometedoras y desafiantes del siglo XXI. Sin embargo, varios países de la región de América Latina y el Caribe (ALC) […]
5 November, 2019
Getting started with programming is easy, a well-trodden path. Whether it be picking up the skill itself, a new programming language or venturing into a new domain, like Natural Language Processing (NLP), you can be sure that a variety of beginner tutorials exist to get you started. The ‘Hello World!’s, as you may know them. […]
25 July, 2019
IDRC’s President Jean Lebel invited Dorothy Gordon, the Chair of Information for All at UNESCO, to Montréal, where she shared her reflections on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence on international development. Here is a summary of her talk in Montréal in May 2019: To watch Dorothy Gordon’s whole presentation, click HERE. Listen to Dorothy […]
12 June, 2019
Submit Your Proposal Today This Call for Proposals invites individuals, grassroots organizations, initiatives, academic, and civil society institutions to submit their proposals for mini-projects within the 2019 Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) initiative. In a recent AI4D workshop in Nairobi, the African community outlined a roadmap, including recommendations for capacity building, governance, and innovation for […]
22 May, 2019
Technologies have had an undeniable impact on improving living standards, connecting us together, and increasing productivity. With the right policies and institutional arrangements, governments can ensure that the benefits of artificial intelligence are shared broadly. This one-hour webinar will introduce and ignite a dialogue on this year’s Government AI Readiness Index and its implications on […]
21 May, 2019
In an era where AI-enabled systems already power a broad set of activities such as social media algorithms, autonomous vehicles, flight navigation systems, agricultural sensors, disease diagnosis, it is only poised to become ever-more pervasive. However, “AI can either accelerate the achievement of the [Sustainable Development] goals or entrench existing gaps,” says IDRC President Jean […]
29 April, 2019
Over the past few months, AI4D partner Oxford Insights, an international public sector consultancy specialising in AI, has been working with the IDRC to prepare the second edition of the Government AI Readiness Index. The Index measures governments’ readiness for implementing AI in their internal operations and in public service delivery. The 2019 edition of […]
28 March, 2019
The AI4D team is travelling in a few days to Nairobi in Kenya to run a workshop to set up the Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development in sub-Saharan Africa with the main objectives to identify a research and capacity building roadmap, strategies, and partnerships for the way forward as we establish this […]
27 March, 2019
The African Network of Excellence in AI has launched a survey and will deliver a report on capacity building in AI in education and in governemnts in SSA. The AI4D initiative will use information from this research to inform future programming addressing AI and work with Governemnts, Universities and other centres of higher education and […]
26 March, 2019
The Deep Learning Indaba is an organisation and a community whose mission is to Strengthen African Machine Learning. Today it has issued its second report Together We Build African Artificial Intelligence describing their strategy, vision and mission. This mission is currently executed using three principal programmes, which aim to build communities, create leadership, and recognise […]
29 March, 2020
This research focuses on enhancing Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Our major task was to develop an NLP model for extracting Adverse Drug Reaction(ADR) cases from EMR. The team was required to collect data from two hospitals, which are using EMR systems (i.e. University of Dodoma (UDOM) Hospital and […]
29 March, 2020
We set out with a novel idea; to develop an application that would (i) collect an individual’s Blood Pressure (BP) and activity data, and (ii) make future BP predictions for the individual with this data. Key requirements for this study therefore were; The ability to get the BP data from an individual. The ability to […]
20 March, 2020
We have set the task to develop semi-automatic methods for extracting key information from criminal cases issued by courts in Malawi. Our body of court judgments came partly from the MalawiLii platform and partly from the High Court Library in Blantyre, Malawi. We focussed our first analysis on cases between 2010 – 2019. Here is […]
9 February, 2020
What are you working on at the moment? My name is Maria Fasli, I am a professor of computer science and my area of expertise is in Artificial Intelligence. I work for the University of Essex in the UK. I work in arrange of projects, with both, industry as well as public sector organizations, trying […]
4 February, 2020
The close of 2019 marked the second month of the AI4D African Dataset Challenge, an effort aimed at incentivizing the uncovering and creation of African language datasets for improved representation in NLP. This challenge is hosted on Zindi and has been ongoing since the 1st of November. Each month we take stock and award a […]
23 January, 2020
What are you working on at the moment? I’m based at the department of computer science, University College London and as well at the College of Medicine at the University of Ibadan. My work is related to solutions for global health challenges such as paediatric infections, malaria, or communicable or noncommunicable diseases. The work has […]
23 December, 2019
On the 1st of November, we launched the AI4D-African Language Dataset Challenge on Zindi, an effort towards incentivizing the uncovering and creation of African language datasets for improved representation in NLP. This first phase of what is expected to be a two-phase challenge, is taking place over 5 months, November 2019 to March […]
10 December, 2019
What are you working on at the moment? I am doctor Vukosi Marivate. I am a chair of data science at the University of Pretoria in South Africa and I am also here representing Deep Learning Indaba. My work mostly is involved in machine learning and natural language processing as well as how we use […]
25 November, 2019
What are you working on at the moment? I am Benjamin Rosman. I work at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, Johannesburg. And I also work at the CSIR, which is the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research in South Africa. And then with another head, I am also one of the founders […]
11 October, 2019
What are you working on? My name is Issac Rutenberg, I am the director of the centre for intellectual property and information technology law, CIPIT, at the Strathmore law school, here in Nairobi, Kenya. We are working at the intersection of intellectual property and IT, particularly in the ways that people utilize both of those […]
18 September, 2019
What are you working on? My name is Kathleen Siminyu, my background is in math and computer science, and from there I’ve put it into data science. So, I am a data scientist at a company called Africa Talking. That is kind of a job that pays the bills, but I wear a couple of […]
1 September, 2019
What are you working on at the moment? My name is Prateek, I am a policy researcher, I studied economics and public policy and now I work at the intersection of technology, policy and society. Some of the things that we are trying to understand are how is technology influencing human rights, access to information, […]
