ICLR presentations of AI4D mini-grants
Workshop within the AI4D initiaitve in sub-Saharan Africa
26 June, 2020
Join us on 3 July 2020 from 14:00 to 16:00 pm CAT/CEST/UTC+2 and make sure to register here “Making NLP work in Africa – with an introduction to the GIZ AI4D African Language Dataset Challenge”
26 June, 2020
Wale Akinfaderin, one of our AI4D grantees has delivered a podcast for an episode of “I Am Change” podcast series with Korede Azeez. The interview can be found on Soundcloud and Apple podcast. Make sure to read about the machine learning behind the project on digitising parliamentary bills in the scientific publication on ArXiv.
12 June, 2020
This time AI4D partnered with the Deep Learning Indaba to strengthen AI research communities and the work they do during the Covid-19 pandemic, by funding research projects across Africa that are collaborative at heart and have a strong development focus. This Call for Proposals invites individuals, grassroots organizations, initiatives, academic, and civil society institutions to […]
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 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) […]
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 […]
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) […]
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 […]
20 April, 2020
What are you working on at the moment? My name is Olubayo Adekanmbi, I work for MTN Nigeria. I drive transformation, innovation and advanced analytics and also driving research and strategy partnership with academic institutions. On the other side I also drive data science Nigeria and AI ecosystems to build capacity, research, AI use cases […]
20 April, 2020
Context In many African countries such as Burkina Faso, people still rely quite often on traditional medicine for both common and uncommon diseases. This is particularly true in rural areas where 71% of the Burkinabe people live. While the research literature acknowledges the pharmacological virtues of some plants, the relevant knowledge is neither sufficiently organized […]
20 April, 2020
Context In most African countries, perhaps more so in Africa than elsewhere, the majority of the populations do not speak the official languages; instead, they speak traditional languages. In some countries, this proportion is as high as 80%. Because of this language barrier, this large part of the population is practically excluded from the march […]
13 April, 2020
A high yielding crop such as tomato with high economic returns can greatly increase smallholder farmers income when well managed. however, it is apparently constrained by the recent invasion of tomato pest Tuta absoluta that is devastating tomato yield. Look at tomato field situation in highly affected areas of arush [Arusha- mp4 video] and Morogoro […]
13 April, 2020
The aim of our project is to investigate the technological feasibility of deploying Unmanned Ground Vehicles for automated wildlife patrol, as well as performing a preliminary analysis of other metadata collected from officials at a national park in Kenya. To this end, we seek to collect and publish a dataset of driving data across national […]
12 April, 2020
Over 5% of the world’s population (466 million people) has disabling hearing loss. 4 million are children [1]. They can be hard of hearing or deaf. Hard of hearing people usually communicate through spoken language and can benefit from assistive devices like cochlear implants. Deaf people mostly have profound hearing loss, which implies very little […]
9 April, 2020
So why have we decided to collect malaria datasets to assist in developing a solution in its diagnosis? First, Malaria remains one of the significant threats to public health and economic development in Africa. Globally, it is estimated that 216 million cases of malaria occurred in 2017, with Africa bearing the brunt of this burden […]
3 April, 2020
What are you working on at the moment? My name is Philip Apodo Oyier from the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. From the school of computing and information technology. I teach computer science and I run a coordinator centre called Kenyan Centre for data analytics, where we run a masters program in data […]
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 […]
