👭 For this year’s International Women's Day, #WanaData highlights women who have risen above gender bias and stereotypes in media and tech spaces. 🤝 Join us as we stand up against #GenderInequality and fight for inclusivity for women in 🌍 Africa. Check out our events 👇

En ce 08 Mars 2022, Engageons nous à briser les préjugés et les stéréotypes sur les femmes #WanaData #BreakTheBias #IWD2022 avec Code for Africa

I am living proof of breaking the bias and overcoming stereotypes. #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias #WanaData Code for Africa

Not yet registered for our upcoming challenge? 🤔 what are you waiting for? 🤷‍♀️ Here is the link 🤗 omdena.com/omdena-chapter… Omdena #AI NGNIE CHRISTIAN Talotsing KmerAI WiMLDS Yaoundé

What's the state of corruption in 🇿🇦SA? Join this #WanaData meetup featuring Kavisha Pillay, Head of Stakeholder Relations and Campaigns at Corruption Watch, to hear about anti-corruption strategies from the organisation. ⏰ 27 April, 1 pm SAST 📍 bit.ly/wd27april

📊 Need a quick lesson on collecting data? Join this #WanaData 🇸🇳 meetup to get in-depth knowledge and practical advice on data collection from arame thiam, data analyst at Code for Africa. ⏰ 21 April, 12 pm GMT 📍 bit.ly/wdsn21april

Take chances, life is short. What do you want to accomplish? Let me know in the comments ⬇️ Lewis Howes

📢 Introducing PesaYetu! A tool to boost your storytelling PesaYetu, created by Code for Africa, KCOMNET, GIZ + CAMECO gives journalists the chance to explore and report on 📊 data-driven stories that affect their community. 🔧 Explore the tool: pesayetu.pesacheck.org

💡 Get expert training on the PesaYetu tool At this month's HH 🇰🇪 meetup you can join Tricia Govindasamy, Senior Data Product Manager at Code for Africa, who will showcase how journalists, researchers and activists can use the tool. ⏰ 22 April, 3 pm EAT 📍 bit.ly/3KZgAvp

Venez apprendre des moyens efficaces pour utiliser l'IA dans le journalisme. Pour notre meetup de WanaData 🇨🇲 , nous recevons BELONA SONNA (She/Her) de BEL'S AI INITIATIVE comme intervenante. ⏰ Aujourd'hui, 13H GMT+1 📍: bit.ly/wd26april #IA #Datajournalism Code for Africa

🚨 #Disinfo networks advancing at alarming rates This The Washington Post piece highlights how anti-Western and pro-Russian campaigns have evolved and how organisations like Code for Africa are working hard to detect the toxic content. 📰 Read it here: wapo.st/398BH01

Using #OSINT social listening & network analysis techniques is crucial for investigating #extremist #disinfo networks in Africa. Learn how at Code for Africa & International Center for Journalists's DATA + RELIGION seminar in 🇳🇬 starting today. 📺 = youtu.be/L5mKUPfM8R0 More info at disinfo.africa

Google has opened its first African Artificial Intelligence (AI) research center in Accra, Ghana. 📷 @iQueiku.

Extremist groups often avoid outright "fake news" #disinfo 'cause its easily disproved. Rather use more subtle half-truths/manipulation to seed counter-narratives, HumAngle_'s 'Kúnlé 🧩 tells Code for Africa. Example: claiming to shoot down Niger warplane, after it crashes.

Page rank is the leading eigenvector of a stochastic matrix. Can be computed efficiently for sparse graphs using power iterations. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank

Un an déjà que vous avez accueilli « Bris de Silence »… L’aventure ne s’arrête pas. Elle continue avec l’adaptation au théâtre de Bris de Silence … C’est un appel au soutien à tous ceux qui croient en un monde meilleur…

LLMs have been proposed for annotation tasks. But, LLMs are biased and make errors. Can we draw * valid * conclusions from LLM annotations? arxiv.org/abs/2408.15204

Toute l’équipe andakia est fière de vous présenter AWA, la première IA capable de comprendre et de parler parfaitement le Wolof, et bientôt d'autres langues africaines. Une révolution technologique qui redéfinit l'accès à l'information en Afrique, en mettant nos langues

Bravo!!