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Such an honour to write this month’s letter to the community for Deep Learning Indaba ‘s Sauti Yetu newsletter. This month also happens to be my birth month (pure coincidence). deeplearningindaba.com/blog/2024/05/i…

Kenyan lawyer Bonyo Linda is fighting cancer in Belgium, and has been doing so on her own. In this video 👇🏿 she talks about why. Her tough situation highlights the difficulties (and expenses) that Africans face when applying to travel to the EU. Lawyers Hub Kenya is conducting a

Set a reminder for my upcoming Space! x.com/i/spaces/1nAJE… The question that has been lingering in our minds...How do you #RecallYourMP ? An incredible panel of constitutional lawyers and activists.

📢Thrilled to announce the launch of the✨Data Workers' Inquiry✨repository and talk series! Join us on July 8 for an online event where data workers will discuss wage theft, violent content, uncertainty, and their efforts to organize and resist. RSVP here tinyurl.com/data-workers

As Kenyans unite with unwavering commitment & courage to stand against punitive tax laws & rampant corruption, we extend our solidarity to those who #RejectFinanceBill2024. Join us in preserving this pivotal moment by contributing to a crowd-sourced archive for future access.

A crowd that arrives together leaves together 🫶🏻🫶🏻🫶🏻 there are no cars nor matatus so we’re all trekking #RejectFinanceBill2024

Not an ICC alumnae calling us criminals😂😂😂

So what happens when the body bags start coming from Haiti? After only being paid 20,000?!!???

I'll do you one better. here's a list of 400+ promises all in one sheet. with citations, status, descriptions and updates. dexxe.notion.site/bf6fb7d1a22444…

Honoured & excited to give an invited keynote at #ICML2024 in Vienna, Austria next Wednesday 24/07 Gondzo - Charting a Path for African Low-Resource Languages: A Multifaceted Approach to Research and Development icml.cc/virtual/2024/i… ICML Conference @uptuks @dsfsi_research Lelapa AI

as part of this year's African Computer Vision Summer School in Nairobi, I run a 3hr workshop this morning on how CV research powers surveillance AI. we got real (& uncomfortable) & was glad to see these set of tasks in particular sparked heated debates amongst vision researchers

Well, its official. I have now signed up to write a WHOLE BOOK 😲 I am equal parts excited and terrified. But I couldn't ask for a better team than my agents Sarah, Katherine, and Anna, and editors Alessandra and Leo. I guess I better get to work now!

#ICML2024 has kicked off in Vienna, Austria. I will be giving my invited talk tomorrow at 930 AM. I will touch on Data Science for Social Impact at University of Pretoria, Lelapa AI Masakhane , Deep Learning Indaba and more as I reflect on #AfricanNLP and #AfricaML

🪘DLI 2024 Workshops Announcement🪘 We are proud to present the list of our full-day workshops ! This year's line-up of workshops is a reflection of our amazing AI African community and it is closely aligned with the mission of the Deep Learning Indaba. Explore the different

Hello! 👋 I'd like to share a work update I am proud of & recognize the 8 universities I've supported over the last year in my work Mozilla 1000+ students, 40+ faculty, and 26M KES in grant funding later, here's to adding value to Kenya's tech ecosystem, a step at a time. 🧵

We're excited to launch Inkuba LM 4.0B, the first small language model for IsiZulu, Yoruba, Hausa, Swahili, and IsiXhosa. InkubaLM is specially designed to support African languages and promote linguistic diversity in AI. Try it out: lnkd.in/dA6aSPCf #InkubaLM

There are 60 million Hausa in Nigeria and 14 million in Niger. Some are labeled Anglophones, while others are called Francophones. There are 6 million Ewe in Ghana and 3 million in Togo, with the former being referred to as Anglophones and the latter as Francophones. There

My #Mturk account was suspended because of apparent issues with my Amazon Pay account, which has been fine since 2015. How can I still purchase on the website with the same payment info, which is problematic enough for Amazon MTurk to suspend my account? That doesn't seem right.

We are pleased to announce that Fiskani Banda, a graduate from the Data Science for Social Impact research group at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, has won the Deep Learning Indaba 2024 Alele-Williams Masters Award. dsfsi.github.io/blog/fiskani-m… University of Pretoria Deep Learning Indaba

I came across a researcher from Maseno University. Ms. C. Amol is doing a great work with Dr. Lilian Wanzare. I “bullied” Amol to explain the work in Dholuo. Luo Aciel Archive