As part of the AfricaNLP - Unlocking Local Languages workshop, we were privileged to host a number of projects working in AI in Africa for Development, funded via IDRC grants.

Programme

12:00-12:10	A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool (slides) Denis Pastory Rubanga
12:10-12:15	Using Artificial Intelligence to Digitize Parliamentary Bills in Sub-Saharan Africa (slides) Adewale Akinfaderin
12:15‑12:20	A Semi-Automatic Tool for Meta-data extraction from Malawi Court Judgments (slides) Amelia Taylor
12:20‑12:25	Improving the Pharmacovigilance system using Natural Language Processing (NLP) on Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) (slides) Steven Edward
12:25-12:30	Effective Creation of Ground Truth Data-set for Malaria Diagnosis Using Deep Learning (slides) Martha Shaka
12:30-12:40	Early detection of preeclampsia (slides) Moses Thiga
12:40‑12:50	Preservation of Indigenous Languages T. Idriss Tinto
12:50‑13:00	End-to-End Learning for Autonomous Driving on Unpaved Roads - A Study Towards Automated Wildlife Patrol (slides) Khushal Brahmbhatt
13:00‑13:05	Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Preserving Ethnopharmacological Knowledge in the Sahel T. Idriss Tinto
13:05‑13:10	Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’ (slides) Abdelhak Mahmoudi
13:10‑13:50	Discussion with AI4D projects Speakers: Davor [Moderator], Denis Pastory Rubanga, Adewale Akinfaderin, Amelia Taylor, Steven Edward, Martha Shaka, Moses Thiga, T. Idriss Tinto, Khushal Brahmbhatt, T. Idriss Tinto,

ICLR Workshop on Artificial Intelligence 4 Development programme projects