Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a trendy buzzword anymore; it’s starting to really change our world in some big ways. In Africa, …
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn’t just a trendy buzzword anymore; it’s starting to really change our world in some big ways. In Africa, …
Lusaka, Zambia — 20 November 2024 — Lanfrica proudly announces that its flagship community project NaijaVoices was crowned winner of the Data Futures Showcase at Mozilla …
First things to do: Background: Web Languages Project Welcome! This is a crowd-sourced effort to improve crawling of low-resource languages. This dataset …
Africa’s healthcare is entering a transformative era powered by AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP). These technologies are reshaping medical care, from diagnosis and research to patient management, with applications that are tailored to the continent’s unique needs.
On October 29, 2024, Lanfrica hosted The Lanfrica Data Unconference, a fully‑virtual gathering on Zoom designed to re‑imagine who gets to shape language technology …
Understanding a language and how its native speakers speak it requires more than just knowing the words and their meanings. It involves …
On 6 September 2024, during the week‑long Deep Learning Indaba in Dakar, Senegal (1–7 Sept), Lanfrica co‑organised the full‑day workshop titled “Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models & Innovation”. The session …
Technology has come a long way, and amazing inventions are coming up every day. Today, people have virtual assistants on their phones …
African intellectuals must do for their languages and cultures what all other intellectuals in history have done for theirs.
