ActuIA Magazine Highlights Lanfrica’s Pioneering Efforts to Tackle Key Issues in AI for Africa
In the tenth issue of ActuIA magazine, founder Chris Emezue discusses Lanfrica and our data-centric and community-driven efforts to improve AI in low-resource African contexts and enable AI-driven businesses to thrive in Africa. We are honored to have our work featured in such a prestigious publication. ActuIA is a French magazine for information and promotion […]
Building language technologies for our under-represented languages
This webinar intends to discuss the question of how we can build language technologies for our minority/indigenous/endangered languages and dialects. Language is an important part of culture and so how do we ensure that artificial intelligence represents the culture of everyone in the world and not just the majority? Meet the Speakers Meet the Hosts
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 […]
African Carpentries Community meetup with Lanfrica Â
Lanfrica and the problems facing the advancement of technologies for African languages On Thursday, August 11 2022, at 7:00 a.m. UTC, Lanfrica presented at the CarpentryCon 2022 event, hosted by The African Carpentries Community. About the talk Africa is one of the most linguistically diverse regions in the world – a continent rich in languages […]