International Development Programme
These are projects we are running with development agencies such as UNESCO, IDRC - International Development Research Centre in Canada, etc in order to deliver AI research in developing countries to promote growth, education, and drive large-scale positive change.Running projects
NAiXUS
Network for Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge and SUStainable development
Linking text to SDGs with Artificial Intelligence: Building a multi-use recommender system
University College London Grand Challenges Special Initiatives 2022-23
Open Education for a Better World
OE4BW mentoring program focuses on building next-generation OE project developers and communities
Digital Archive: Preservation of Namibian Histories and Culture
Crowdsourcing Historical and cultural data in Namibian languages (Oshiwambo and Khoekhoegowab) for Automatic Speech Recognition, Machine Translation and edutainment
Masakhane MT: Decolonizing Scientific Writing for Africa
Lacuna Fund call for Language datasets
Named Entity Recognition and parts of Speech Datasets for African Languages
Lacuna Fund call for Language datasets
Building Wolof Text To Speech System
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Fellowship to develop datasets and strengthen capacities and innovation potential for Low Resource African Languages
Report on Education, Training Teachers and Learning Artificial Intelligence
Report by UNESCO Chair in teacher training technologies with OER
International Research Centre On Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI)
Under the auspices of UNESCO (category 2)
UNESCO Chair on Open Technologies for OER and Open Learning
Offer AI technologies, evidence and guidance for OER research methods
UNESCO Chair in teacher training technologies with OER
Train educators to teach basic programming and computer science to young people from 8 to 14
UNESCO Chair in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence has the potential to accelerate progress towards a dignified life, in peace and prosperity, for all people
Past projects
End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads – A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol
Funded by the AI4D Programme
Using Artificial Intelligence to Digitize Parliamentary Bills in Sub-Saharan Africa
Funded by the AI4D Programme
AI4D Malawi News Classification Challenge
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
AI4D Takwimu Lab – Machine Translation Challenge
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
AI4D iCompass Social Media Sentiment Analysis for Tunisian Arabizi
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
AI4D Yorùbá Machine Translation Challenge
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Twi language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Luganda language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Keyword Spotting with African Languages
Senegal - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Building a database for Ewe language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Fongbe language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Yoruba language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Chichewa language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Wolof language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Kiswahili language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
Building a database for Tunisian Arabizi language in Africa
Cracking the Language Barrier for a Multilingual Africa
An African Short Story Language Corpus
Kenya - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Locally run Web-based App for Interpretable Breast Cancer Diagnosis from Histology Images
Ghana - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Visual Question Answering in the Medical Domain
Cameroon - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Improving Online Learning Experience using Accent Transfer
Nigeria - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Development of Machine Learning Dataset for Poultry Diseases Diagnostics
Tanzania - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Computationally Accelerating Protein-Ligand Matching for neglected tropical disease
Ivory Coast/United States - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
ChexNet Model Compression for Pneumonia Detection Using Low Powered Edge Devices
Rwanda - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Characterizing Health Misinformation on Social Media
Nigeria - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
AI system for MNC: Artificial intelligent system for predictors of early detection of maternal, neonatal and child health risks and their timely management
Tanzania - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
AI for Coral Reef Conservation: Data Collection for Computer Vision in the Vamizi Island
Mozambique - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported IndabaX community project
Report on the workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Women Empowerment
Workshop held in Paris, France, on the 2nd of November 2019
Recommendation for Future International Collaboration in the field of Open Educational Resources (OER)
UNESCO Standard-Setting Instrument
Effective Creation of Ground Truth Data-set for Malaria Diagnosis Using Deep Learning
Funded by the AI4D Programme
Preservation of Indigenous Languages
Burkina Faso - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Preserving Ethnopharmacological Knowledge in the Sahel
Burkina Faso - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: Learning for Deaf
Morocco - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
A Public Dataset on Poaching Trends in Kenya and a Study on the Predictive Modeling of Poaching Attacks
Kenya - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
Early detection of preeclampsia using ambulatory blood pressure monitoring using wearable devices and Long Short Term Memory Networks (LSTM-NN) on the edge
Kenya - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
A Semi-Automatic Tool for Meta-data extraction from Malawi Court Judgments
Malawi - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool
Tanzania - Artificial Intelligence 4 Development Programme supported project
Network of Research Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Africa
AI4D initiative - Artificial Intelligence for Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Global South map of emerging areas in Artificial Intelligence
A developing countries map of talents, players, knowledge and co-creation hot spots in AI
