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Mobilizing labeled datasets that solve urgent problems in low- and middle-income contexts globally. #ClosingDataGaps #OurVoiceinData
Joined July 2020
Congrats to #data354, a Lacuna Fund Climate & Forests grantee, for a 4-day pilot data collection mission toward a scalable model for biomass assessment in mangrove ecosystems! This project aligns field-level operations, technological innovation, and data accessibility and equity.
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We have very exciting news! There are 18 new #machinelearning datasets out now, built by our amazing grantees working across multiple domains. Take a look! #OurVoiceinData
https://t.co/hzD7nqCkir French/Spanish is available on the site. #Ag #Health #Climate #NLP #ML #AI
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DSA 2024 Rewind @lightonphiri Explores Enterprise Medical Imaging in Zambia, this project investigates challenges caused by the shortage of trained radiologists. 🎥 Watch the full presentation: https://t.co/zL35ZqCQ3W
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Today, we are pleased to announce 14 new Lacuna Fund grantees! Read the full announcement! https://t.co/a5GCTWcBin
#ML #AI #Climate #Forests #OurVoiceinData #fillingdatagaps
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Announcing Awards for Climate and Forests Machine Learning Datasets In 2023, Lacuna Fund launched its first Climate and Forests call for proposals within our Climate domain. Today, we are announcing...
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We made it! As NYC prepares for Climate Week 2024, the Lacuna Fund Grantee Convening is already in full swing. Our team is full of smiles between sessions with partners and grantees! #OurVoiceInData #LFNYC2024 #LacunaFund
LACUNA FUND IS HEADED TO NYC! Lacuna Fund grantees are making their way to New York for our annual Lacuna Fund Grantee Convening, ahead of #ClimateWeek2024. We can't wait to celebrate projects on #Climate& #Energy, #Health, & #Forests, and #OurVoiceInData! #LFNYC2024 #LacunaFund
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LACUNA FUND IS HEADED TO NYC! Lacuna Fund grantees are making their way to New York for our annual Lacuna Fund Grantee Convening, ahead of #ClimateWeek2024. We can't wait to celebrate projects on #Climate& #Energy, #Health, & #Forests, and #OurVoiceInData! #LFNYC2024 #LacunaFund
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We have FIVE new #machinelearning datasets out today! These datasets represent three of our domains: #agriculture, #language, and #health. https://t.co/k0stCHebn9
#OurVoiceinData #fillingdatagaps #AI #ML
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Meet M-Vet! Our project lead, Daniel Mutembesa, is sharing how this innovative tool is empowering over 1500 Ugandan farmers with: ✅Rapid point-of-care diagnostics ✅Image-based disease diagnosis ✅Disease surveillance tracking and prediction #ML4LivestockHackathon
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New this year, @ACTSNET and @cen_ia are serving as our first-ever Lacuna Fund Hubs! ACTS will support #AntimicrobialResistance RFP and CENIA will support the #NaturalLanguageProcessing RFP. Learn more! https://t.co/LOFujto63g
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Applications are OPEN for @LacunaFund 2024 RFPs! We seek proposals to create #machinelearning datasets in two domains: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Natural Language Processing (#NLP). Read the announcement: https://t.co/Xp27S6aiUR Apply now! https://t.co/fKJtJIoNQF
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📢It's the 2nd year of @BraTS_challenge #Africa. Join the global effort to develop AI solutions for brain tumor segmentation that includes underrepresented populations. 👇to participate: https://t.co/jzovA1iWF8
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We are excited to announce the 2024 BraTS-Africa Challenge, a unique opportunity for you to advance brain tumour segmentation in Africa. https://t.co/SYtSPISMOR
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Mutembesa Daniel's team is building a dataset for #ML diagnostics in livestock. Watch as he shares the importance of this work! CC available in EN/FR/ES:
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My #TEDXPretoria talk is out. This was a great experience, reflecting on my personal journey on #ArtificialIntelligence and representing our great communities at: @DeepIndaba, @MasakhaneNLP, @DSFSI_Research, @LelapaAI and more. @UPTuks
📺 Watch now!! Our PI Vukosi Marivate's TEDxPretoria talk titled <> "AI as Our Mirror: Exploring Ourselves Through AI Empowerment" | TEDxPretoria https://t.co/kGXkiz0KAI
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Professor Gloria Monica Tobechukwu Emezue envisions a world where Siri not only speaks in English, but in Igbo, Hausa, and Yoruba too. Watch as she shares the importance of her work and @LacunaFund's impact in Africa. View here (EN, ES, FR captions):
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#SaveTheDate for Building Parts of Speech Capabilities in African Languages. Join Zindi, @MasakhaneNLP & @LacunaFund to discuss advances in PoS tagging for Luo & Setswana, and meet the winners of the recent Zindi Masakhane PoS Challenge. Register👉 https://t.co/WgG1CwVtp8
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Join Zindi, Masakhane and Lacuna Fund to discuss advances in PoS tagging for Luo and Setswana, and meet the winners of the recent Zindi Masakhane PoS…
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Africa Women School of AI is accepting applications through 10 December! Hybrid based out of Tanzania. Program runs Jan– April 2024. No prior coding experience needed! Learn more about fellowship types and apply! https://t.co/YUtjvtUFo6
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Kuza STEAM Generation (KsGen) – www.ksgen.or.tz is pleased to announce the First edition of the Africa Women School of AI 2023 fellowship programme. The fellowship programme is open to applications...
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The award is in recognition of our work on enabling accurate and faster diagnosis of Brain tumour in Sub-Saharan through the 2023 BraTS-SSA dataset and Challenge. Many thanks to our collaborators @BraTS_challenge @CAMERAAfrica @mailab_io @UnilagNigeria and funder @LacunaFund
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Currently labelling images for #ArtificialInteligence as last step of our dataset creation funded by @LacunaFund We're talking about approximately 20 000 zones, 140 000 reference points and 10 900 point of interest. Data release by 03/24 at the latest. #Africa @cafdo_officiel
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