Ai Kenya Breakfast Summit : Shaping AI in Africa
On January 29, 2025, Ai Kenya held its first summit, the Ai Kenya Breakfast Summit, themed “Transformative AI: From Efficiency Gains to Strategic Advantage”. The summit brought together over 160 delegates from more than 150 organizations spanning East Africa, with 45% of …
Redefining AI Labor: A Town Hall Paving the Way for Fairness and Equity for Data workers in the AI industry
On November 15, 2024, Nairobi witnessed a powerful convergence of minds at Aga Khan University. The “Redefining AI Labor” townhall, organized by Ai Kenya and supported by the Pulitzer Center, brought together a vibrant mix of data workers, BPO representatives, legal minds, …
Using Facial progression AI to find missing children in Kenya
Faces are as unique as fingerprints and can reveal a great deal of information about our health, personalities, age, and feelings. As someone grows, many of their facial features change, as a result of the different environments, activities, and nutrition among other …
Meet Savanna Circuit Tech: Grand Prize Winner of the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020
Written by Stacey Faucet Now that the Cisco Global Problem Solver Challenge 2020 winners have been officially announced, you’ll want to learn more about each winning team and the story behind each innovation. In its fourth year, this online competition awards cash prizes to early-stage …
A summary of the Stanford HAI COVID-19 and AI virtual conference
Different bodies and industries around the world have shown their support towards humanity by trying to take part in the fight against COVID-19. Key among these is the Technology and Research sector, which remains as a cornerstone in keeping the world operational …
How AI helps mothers in Kenya get the care they need, faster
Every mother has questions during and after a 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 touch …
Data Privacy Day 2020: 4 Good Things in Kenya’s Data protection Act, 2019
Photo credits: Alex Nemo Hanse Today is the 28th of January. Data Protection Day or Privacy Day. The day when we all commemorate the 1981 signing of the Council of Europe’s Convention 108 for the Protection of Individuals with regard to automatic …
What to consider when choosing a laptop for machine learning (2020)
Photo by: Slejven Djurakovic Artificial intelligence technologies such as machine learning and deep learning involve use of large amounts of data and complex algorithms that require powerful computation hardware. This makes selecting the best machine for such tasks challenging because you have …
Best Laptops for Machine Learning (2020)
Photo by: Tarn Nguyen When it comes to selecting the best machine for deep learning people have varied opinions based on different factors such as the training speed and the type of the machine learning model among others. However, the fact remains …
Kigali, The 2019 Happiness Capital
Africa over time has been riddled by negative connotations. I’m in no position to defend or support such assertions as in most cases, such views I believe are solely in the eyes of the proponents. That aside, I chose to take a …
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