Previously physicians had to go through verbal autopsy reports to determine the causes of death, which was tedious, time consuming and prone to bias. The new AI model, developed by a beneficiary of the AI4D Africa Scholarship project, enables the government to determine the causes of out-of-hospital deaths in real time and, therefore, plan for […]
How AI4D Africa Scholar is using AI to influence reporting of mortality statistics in Tanzania
Previously, physicians had to go through verbal autopsy reports to determine the causes of death, which was tedious, time consuming and prone to bias. The new AI model enables the government to identify causes of death in real time and plan for timely interventions based on morbidity patterns. A beneficiary of the AI4D Africa scholarship […]
Kenya hosts forum seeking to raise Africa’s stake in academic research
Kenya will next week host an academy for researchers and scholars on artificial intelligence and machine learning in Africa. The academy, to be held from December 12-16 in Mombasa, will bring together 75 PhD, masters and post-doctorate students together with their supervisors from 22 universities across 18 African countries. Dr Winston Ojenge, the Head of […]
5,000 PhD scholars to meet Africa’s growing AI needs
By Eve Ruwoko Article originally published on University World News If Africa wants to tap into the benefits of the digital economy to address the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG), at least 5,000 PhD scholars in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning must be cultivated over the next five years, according […]
Artificial Intelligence for agricultural pest detection in Cape Verde – the beginning
By Sonia Semedo, University of Cape Verde The emergence of pests and diseases has destroyed agricultural crops in Cape Verde and often farmers do not realise this until late and eventually lose their production. Our research proposal is to monitor the growth of crops and with the help of artificial intelligence detect and identify potential […]
Training the best AI brains in Africa
By Dr. Lawrence Nderu Storytelling is an essential communication tool and can be used as a contextual bridge between play and written narrative. This is something that I discovered when I sat with a five-year-old for the first time and found that I needed new stories to keep up with the child’s appetite for them. […]
Detecting Crop Diseases Using Mobile Application
By Dr. Neema Mduma Crop diseases are substantially problematic for agricultural yield management and a major threat to food security. On addressing this challenge which facing agricultural sector in Tanzania, Dr. Neema Mduma, a lecturer at the Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST) in Arusha, Tanzania, is developing a mobile application for […]