Join AI4D, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat
ICLR presentations of AI4D mini-grants
Workshop within the AI4D initiaitve in sub-Saharan Africa
22 July, 2020
REGISTER HERE Please join AI4D, Mozilla, and GIZ’s FAIR Forward initiative for a webinar with the Lacuna Fund Secretariat and partners introducing the Fund’s mission and the critical need for representative, accessible labeled data to drive more equitable machine learning. The webinar will feature: An introduction to Lacuna Fund. A panel of data scientists working […]
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.
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
25 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
6 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
6 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
6 July, 2020
This talk was delivered in Adis Abeba, Ethiopia at the ICLR 2020 “AfricaNLP Workshop – Putting Africa on the NLP Map” via the #AI4DNetwork and with the support of @IDRC_CRDI @Sida and @K4A_Foundation
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 […]
