Olubayo Adekanmbi from MTN and Data Science Nigeria on how AI ecosystems are created
April 20, 2020 11:57 am Leave your thoughtsWhat are you working on at the moment? My name is Olubayo Adekanmbi, I work for MTN Nigeria. I drive... View Article
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Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Facilitating the Exploitation of Local Ethnopharmacological Knowledge
April 20, 2020 7:20 am Leave your thoughtsContext In many African countries such as Burkina Faso, people still rely quite often on traditional medicine for both common... View Article
Preservation of Indigenous Languages
April 20, 2020 7:14 am 1 CommentProject by: Dr. Aminata Zerbo Sabane, Dr. Tegawendé Bissyande, and T. Idriss Tinto L’université Joseph Ki-Zerbo and La Communauté Afrique Francophone... View Article
A Computer Vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction Tool
April 13, 2020 9:03 am 2 CommentsProject by: Denis Pastory Rubanga, Dr. Zekaya Never, Dr. Machuve Dina, Lilian Mkonyi, Loyani K. Loyani, Richard Mgaya.Tokyo University of... View Article
End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol
April 13, 2020 9:01 am Leave your thoughtsThe aim of our project is to investigate the technological feasibility of deploying Unmanned Ground Vehicles for automated wildlife patrol,... View Article
Arabic Speech-to-Moroccan Sign Language Translator: “Learning for Deaf”
April 12, 2020 9:05 am 2 CommentsProject by: Dr. Abdelhak Mahmoudi , Mohammed V University of Rabat, MoroccoProject name: Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’Project description:... View Article
Getting data: Creating a ground truth dataset for malaria diagnosis in Tanzania
April 9, 2020 9:00 am Leave your thoughtsSo why have we decided to collect malaria datasets to assist in developing a solution in its diagnosis? First, Malaria... View Article
Philip Apodo Oyier from Jomo Kenyatta, University of Agriculture and Technology on AI and common problems in Africa
April 3, 2020 11:46 am Leave your thoughtsWhat are you working on at the moment? My name is Philip Apodo Oyier from the Jomo Kenyatta University of... View Article
Improving Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records
March 29, 2020 4:26 pm Leave your thoughtsThis research focuses on enhancing Pharmacovigilance Systems using Natural Language Processing on Electronic Medical Records (EMR). Our major task was... View Article
Building a Data Pipeline for a Real World Machine Learning Application
March 29, 2020 9:40 am Leave your thoughtsWe set out with a novel idea; to develop an application that would (i) collect an individual’s Blood Pressure (BP)... View Article
Extracting meta-data from Malawi Court Judgments
March 20, 2020 12:36 pm 1 CommentProject by: Dr. Amelia Taylor, Eva Mfutso-Bengo and Binart Kachule, University of Malawi and the Polytechnic,University of Malawi, MalawiProject name:... View Article
Maria Fasli, University of Essex, UNESCO Chair in Data Science and Analytics on developing AI solutions in Africa
February 9, 2020 9:06 am Leave your thoughtsWhat are you working on at the moment? My name is Maria Fasli, I am a professor of computer science... View Article