AI4D Africa Grant Recipients
April 12, 2021 10:14 am Leave your thoughtsSince the launch of the AI4D Africa program, we have run a total six calls for funding (with more still in the pipeline). The... 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
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
December Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de decembre; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
February 4, 2020 12:25 pm Leave your thoughtsThe close of 2019 marked the second month of the AI4D African Dataset Challenge, an effort aimed at incentivizing the... View Article
November Review; AI4D- African Language Dataset Challenge // Bilan de novembre ; Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
December 23, 2019 11:03 am 2 CommentsOn the 1st of November, we launched the AI4D-African Language Dataset Challenge on Zindi, an effort towards incentivising the uncovering... View Article
AI4D – African Language Dataset Challenge // Défi AI4D – Jeu de Données sur les Langues Africaines
November 5, 2019 1:13 pm 4 CommentsGetting started with programming is easy, a well-trodden path. Whether it be picking up the skill itself, a new programming... View Article