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Smile Identity raises $7M to build KYC and identity verification tools for Africa
July 12, 2021, by Tage Kene-Okafor
An estimated one billion people worldwide face the challenge of proving who they ...
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How AI is helping rural African farmers
December 1, 2020, by BBC News - Technology
An AI-backed mobile app is helping farmers in rural areas gain critical information ...
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The Masakhane project wants machine translation and AI to transform Africa
November 27, 2019, by Khari Johnson
Masakhane is an open source project being undertaken by young African technologists to ...
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Lanfrica: A Participatory Approach to Documenting Machine Translation Research on African Languages (Research summary)
September 22, 2020, by MAIEI
Summary contributed by our researcher Alexandrine Royer, who works at The Foundation for ...
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How the rise of ‘digital colonialism’ in the age of AI threatens Africa’s prosperity
September 18, 2020, by Colm Gorey
What value do you put on all the data gathered about you on ...
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Estonian fintech Planet42 raises €2.2 million to democratise car access in South Africa
September 16, 2020, by Charlotte Tucker
Today Planet42, an Estonian fintech operating in Africa that focuses on providing access to ...
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How Microsoft is Bringing the Power of AI to Graduates
July 29, 2020, by Jenna Delport
The Central University of Technology (CUT) of the Free State has introduced Microsoft’s ...
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Africa Data Centres Joins NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Centre Program
May 25, 2020, by Jenna Delport
Africa Data Centres announced it has joined the NVIDIA DGX-Ready Data Centre program, ...
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This AI Expert From Senegal Is Helping Showcase Africans In STEM
August 30, 2020, by Andrew Wight, Contributor
Not only has Adji Bousso Dieng, an AI researcher from Senegal, contributed to ...
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Research summary: Algorithmic Colonization of Africa
August 31, 2020, by MAIEI
Summary contributed by Falaah Arif Khan, our Artist in Residence. She creates art ...
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