K4A grant recipients Adewale Akinfaderin, Olamilekan Wahab and Olubayo Adekanmb, are successfully using Artificial Intelligence to digitize parliamentary bills in Sub-Saharan Africa and Specifically in Nigeria. Read their recent interview in the Techpoint.Africa article.
In July 2019 we issued a call for proposals to invite 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 funded by IDRC. We selected 10 winners and invited the Awardees to present their solutions at the AI4D workshop during the Deep Learning Indaba 2019 conference.
Last week more than 700 machine learning researchers from over 30 African countries came together at Kenyatta University in Nairobi, Kenya for the third annual Deep Learning Indaba. Knowledge 4 All Foundation helped fundraising for Indaba in order to support its aims to Strengthen African Machine Learning.
At this years edition of IJCAI, we successfully organised a workshop on the topic of Sustainable Development Goals. The talks presented machine learning solutions in practice, from poaching to building structures, and poverty and wealth. It seems that the topic of SDGs and AI in development are gaining traction in practice and can have a valid contribution to science. The X5GON project focusing on education and Open Educational Resources was featured with a keynote presentation.
We are revisiting the great event in April in Nairobi where K4A with IDRC support provided the capacity building and funding needed to launch the African Network in Artificial Intelligence and its basic activities around the African machine learning communities to support the pioneering stages of development driven approached within AI in Africa. The pictures are form the last day of the Nairobi workshop hosted at IBM Kenya.
Over the past few months, Knowledge 4 All Foundation, a key partner in the Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) initiative to advance AI in the Global South, partnered with Oxford Insights, an international public sector consultancy specialising in AI, and IDRC which prepared the second edition of the Government AI Readiness Index. This year’s index is more globally represented and expanded the scope to cover all UN countries. Having calculated scores for all 194 governments included in the report, Oxford Insights invited experts from each region to contribute commentary to help bring our findings to life with their insights and local knowledge.
If I could solve any problem with AI, it would be [African] products reaching international markets.
Organized by K4A, IDRC, SIDA at workshop “Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa”, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019, #UnitedNations #artificialintelligence #SDG #UNESCO #videolectures #AI4DNetwork #AI4Dev #AI4D
My bluesky project is how do we get AI to be interpretable and transparent
Organized by K4A, IDRC, SIDA at workshop “Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa”, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019, @vukosi @DeepIndaba #UnitedNations #artificialintelligence #SDG #UNESCO #videolectures #AI4DNetwork #AI4Dev #AI4D
I think we should empower young people, so for me to enable people to earn an income and be self-sufficient, then we would succeed in using AI in general.
Organized by K4A, IDRC, SIDA at workshop “Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa”, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019, #UnitedNations #artificialintelligence #SDG #UNESCO #videolectures #AI4DNetwork #AI4Dev #AI4D
My bluesky projects is education, where I believe AI can enhance the educational provision and experience of countless people across the globe, because it can provide high quality educational materials for the masses.
Organized by K4A, IDRC, SIDA at workshop “Toward a Network of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence for Development (AI4D) in sub-Saharan Africa”, Nairobi, Kenya, April 2019, #UnitedNations #artificialintelligence #SDG #UNESCO #videolectures #AI4DNetwork #AI4Dev #AI4D
