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 (DSFSI) 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

Workshop Day 1 at #DLI2024. So much being discussed on NLP, Data, Models and community. Take a look at this new Equitable License from Data Science Law Lab and Strathmore CIPIT Nwulite Obodo Open Data License. link -> licensingafricandatasets.com #DLIndaba2024 Deep Learning Indaba University of Pretoria

I’m looking for great recent/almost MSc graduates in NLP/Speech/Theoretical Deep Learning, who are interested in doing up to a 6 months/1 year position with me as research assistant. They would be hired by DTU Compute.

3 papers accepted at #EMNLP2024 1) YORÙLECT (Yoruba dialects) led by Oreva Ahia Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr. arxiv.org/abs/2406.19564 2) MT Hallucination Detection led by Kenza Ily Benkirane Laura Gongas arxiv.org/abs/2407.16470 3) MINERS led by Genta Winata Ruochen Zhang arxiv.org/abs/2406.07424

Join my lab! I’m currently recruiting new students (MSc & PhD) for admission in the fall of 2025 at Mila - Institut québécois d'IA mila.quebec/en/prospective… Are you interested in multilingual NLP? I would encourage you to apply. Deadline: December 1

note to the African AI community

We have been busy this month ACM FAccT. We’ve released the Call for Papers - consider submitting your best work in fairness, interpretability, safety, trustworthiness and other topics in sociotechnical AI 🤩. facctconference.org/2025/cfp also see the new contributor Guides.

Tidings from my time at the #Rise25 convening and awards. Thank you Mozilla for this recognition. 🥰🤩 Check out this youtube video where I speak about my work: youtube.com/watch?v=_4_xM1…