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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 CAMERA MRI AFRICA MAILAB University of Lagos and funder Lacuna Fund

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! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI… ksgen.or.tz

#SaveTheDate for Building Parts of Speech Capabilities in African Languages. Join Zindi, Masakhane & Lacuna Fund to discuss advances in PoS tagging for Luo & Setswana, and meet the winners of the recent Zindi Masakhane PoS Challenge. Register👉lu.ma/ggaw99f3

Are you subscribed to our newsletter? Sign up below to receive important updates and announcements! lacunafund.us10.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=dd… #OurVoiceinData #fillingdatagaps #Agriculture #Climate #Language #Health

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 Lacuna Fund's impact in Africa. View here (EN, ES, FR captions): vimeo.com/915395710?shar…

My #TEDXPretoria talk is out. This was a great experience, reflecting on my personal journey on #ArtificialIntelligence and representing our great communities at: Deep Learning Indaba, Masakhane, Data Science for Social Impact, Lelapa AI and more. University of Pretoria

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: vimeo.com/924875204?shar…

📢It's the 2nd year of BraTS #Africa. Join the global effort to develop AI solutions for brain tumor segmentation that includes underrepresented populations. 👇to participate: synapse.org/Synapse:syn537… Lacuna Fund

Applications are OPEN for Lacuna Fund 2024 RFPs! We seek proposals to create #machinelearning datasets in two domains: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and Natural Language Processing (#NLP). Read the announcement: lacunafund.org/lacuna-fund-in… Apply now! lacunafund.org/apply

New this year, ACTS and CENIA - Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial are serving as our first-ever Lacuna Fund Hubs! ACTS will support #AntimicrobialResistance RFP and CENIA will support the #NaturalLanguageProcessing RFP. Learn more! lacunafund.org/apply/ acts-net.org cenia.cl/en/home/

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

We have FIVE new #machinelearning datasets out today! These datasets represent three of our domains: #agriculture, #language, and #health. lacunafund.org/five-new-machi… #OurVoiceinData #fillingdatagaps #AI #ML

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

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

Today, we are pleased to announce 14 new Lacuna Fund grantees! Read the full announcement! lacunafund.org/announcing-awa… #ML #AI #Climate #Forests #OurVoiceinData #fillingdatagaps

DSA 2024 Rewind Lighton Phiri Explores Enterprise Medical Imaging in Zambia, this project investigates challenges caused by the shortage of trained radiologists. 🎥 Watch the full presentation: youtu.be/I8QsSfglexI Lacuna Fund | The University Of Zambia

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 lacunafund.org/lacuna-fund-re… French/Spanish is available on the site. #Ag #Health #Climate #NLP #ML #AI