Fastagger among the Top 10 Tech Start-ups Selected for #Africa4Future
Fastagger, a Kenyan start-up providing image annotation services to AI-driven businesses was among the 10 cohorts selected for the third season of #Africa4Future programme among the 212 applicants from 28 African countries. The programme will support the start-ups in developing their ideas …
Paper summary: Good isn’t good enough
Computer science as a field lacks definite supportive principles about “social good”. Instead, the field relies on vague propositions and aspects of social conditions that do not amount to the actual social change. This has continuously hindered the realization of social impact …
How Jacaranda Health is getting help for mothers in Kenya faster using Natural Language Processing
Every mother has questions during and after pregnancy. How often should I feel my baby kick? When should I go to the hospital? How do I know if my newborn is feeding enough? In many settings around the world, mothers get in …
Prohack : International Data science Hackathon by McKinsey & Company
Can you predict human well-being using data? Introducing PROHACK, a hackathon for data scientists based in Africa, Europe, Turkey, Middle East, or Pakistan. Inviting all data scientists and machine learning engineers to put their skills to the test and win prizes for …
