mosnyik/leximpact

Lex-Impact is an open-source initiative empowering Africans through AI education, authentic African datasets, and computing resources. We aim to enable innovators to build tech-driven solutions that solve real African challenges and drive meaningful growth across the continent. # LEX IMPACT Welcome to **LEX IMPACT** - a unified platform designed to **enpower Africans** to excel in Artificial Intelligence through **edducation, access to local data sets and compute resources** ## Overview **LEX IMPACT** brings together three critical pillars inot one seamless platform: - **Academy :** Learn AI from beginner to expert through curated courses, mentorship, and hands-on projects tailored African realities. - **Data Center :** Access rich, diverse and high quality African datasets, essential for building relevant and impactful AI models. - **Compute Resources :** Get access to cloud-based compute power for training AI models-breaking barries and hardware limitations Our mission is to **democratise AI** across Africa by providing the tools, data, and knowlege needed to **create African solutions for African problems** ## Features **Academy** - Structured AI curriculum - Mentorship and community support - Hands-on projects and real-world challenges - Certificate of completion **Data Centre** - Collection of authentic African datasets (eg language, healthcare, agriculture etc) - Tools to explore, visualize and download datasets - Contribution program to expand on the datasets **Compute Resources** - Access to GPU and CPU cloud servers - Free for all, but limited slots to save trained models - Scalable compute for model training and deployment ## Why LEX-IMPACT - **Localized learning :** Education and datasets adapted to the African context - **Impact Focused :** Solve real problems across industries eg healthcare, agriculture, education etc - **Community Driven :** Built by Africans, for Africans - and open to global contributors ## Tech Stack - **Frontend :** Next.js, React.js, TailwindCSS - **Backend :** Supabase, Redis - **Databasem :** PostgreSQL - **Cloud Infrastructure :** GCP - **Compute Resources :** Kubernetes, Docker ## RoadMap - - [ ] Academy MVP launched - - [ ] First African dataset - - [ ] Compute Resources beta access - - [ …