AI4Dev
As part of our workshop, we’re priveleged to host a number of projects working in AI in Africa for Development, funded via grants from our sponsors AI4Dev during our midday hackathon.
| Time | Title | Speaker | Resources |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12:00 PM | A Computer vision Tomato Pest Assessment and Prediction tool | Denis Pastory Rubanga | slides |
| 12:10 PM | Using Artificial Intelligence to Digitize Parliamentary Bills in Sub-Saharan Africa | Adewale Akinfaderin | slides |
| 12:20 PM | A Semi-Automatic Tool for Meta-data extraction from Malawi Court Judgments | Amelia Taylor | blog, slides |
| 12:30 PM | Improving the Pharmacovigilance system using Natural Language Processing (NLP) on Electronic Medical Records (EMRs) | Steven Edward | blog, slides |
| 12:40 PM | Effective Creation of Ground Truth Data-set for Malaria Diagnosis Using Deep Learning | Martha Shaka | blog, slides |
| 12:50 PM | Early detection of preeclampsia | Moses Thiga | blog, slides |
| 1:00 PM | Preservation of Indigenous Languages | T. Idriss Tinto | blog |
| 1:10 PM | A Public Dataset on Poaching Trends in Kenya and a Study on the Predictive Modeling of Poaching Attacks | Khushal Brahmbhatt | blog, slides |
| 1:20 PM | Building a Medicinal Plant Database for Preserving Ethnopharmacological Knowledge in the Sahel | T. Idriss Tinto | blog |
| 1:30 PM | Arabic Speech-to-MSL Translator: ‘Learning for Deaf’ | Abdelhak Mahmoudi | blog, slides |
| 1:40 PM | 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, |