Call for Proposals: The NaijaVoices Language Heritage Micro-Grants
NaijaVoices announces the Language Heritage Micro-Grant, a national call for proposals to support community-driven projects that build, enrich, and conserve Nigeria’s linguistic diversity. Rooted in our principle of data farming, NaijaVoices is committed to empowering communities to cultivate, own, and benefit from their language resources. Funds from the commercial use of NaijaVoices datasets are being […]
Lanfrica V2 – What’s Cooking Under the Hood
For the past 9 months, we have been hard at work on revamping Lanfrica. As we wrap up, we wanted to share a sneak peek on some things to expect. Changes coming to the Lanfrica frontend We have some exciting things coming to the frontend: A cleaner discovery interface: our previous records platform, with the […]
Lanfrica at WIPO: Copyright Policies for the development of Artificial Intelligence in Latin America and Africa
Lanfrica was honored to participate in a high-level panel at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) during the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights, in a side event titled “Promoting AI for Good in the Global South” which took place April 7 to April 11, 2025, in Geneva, Switzerland. The event, which was jointly […]
Lanfrica at LT4ALL 2025: Data Farming and The NaijaVoices Experience
We’re proud to share that Prof. GMT Emezue, Lanfrica’s Coordinator for Nigeria, was invited to speak at the 2nd International Conference on Language Technologies for All (LT4ALL 2025), held at the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris, February 24th to 26th, 2025. Organized by the International Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest Group on Under-resourced […]
Lanfrica Shines at MozFest Zambia 2024 — NaijaVoices Wins Data Futures Showcase
Lusaka, Zambia — 20 November 2024 — Lanfrica proudly announces that its flagship community project NaijaVoices was crowned winner of the Data Futures Showcase at Mozilla Festival (MozFest) Zambia 2024, a gathering that celebrates African innovators who are “flipping the script” on data ownership and cultural preservation. Spotlight on the Data Futures Showcase MozFest’s Data Futures Showcase highlights builders around […]
Mapping Nigeria’s Digital Language Landscape: Community Sprint
First things to do: Background: Web Languages Project Welcome! This is a crowd-sourced effort to improve crawling of low-resource languages. This dataset is public. Common Crawl recognizes a lot of languages, and we can see that we don’t have enough of languages. We are interested in languages from all over the world. If you choose […]
Lanfrica Crosses Milestone of 1000 African AI Resources🎉
In 2022, Lanfrica, following its launch, set a goal to find and link at least 1000 African language resources. We are pleased to announce that on the last day of 2022, we achieved this milestone, and are now providing access to more than 1000 African resources on our platform. This achievement is a testament to […]
Lanfrica v1 has been launched!
The last few months have been full of activity at Lanfrica, and we are happy to announce that Lanfrica is officially launched. Why Lanfrica? Lanfrica aims to mitigate the difficulty encountered in the discovery of African language resources by creating a centralized, language-first catalog. For instance, if you’re looking for resources (linguistic datasets or research papers) in […]
