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Hey Deep Learning Indaba fam I am at #DLI2023 from Sunday to Thursday afternoon, then back Saturday afternoon. Reach out if you want to chat about anything African NLP, African Machine Learning community building, Data Science for Society and policy or just say hello.

🚨MARK YOUR CALENDARS - Oct 31st: No matter who you are, or what you look like, I invite you to join the fight for algorithmic justice. Learn more in my book UNMASKING AI. Get your masks ready! 🔥 H/T to Sasha Costanza-Chock for the awesome music for the trailer + blurbs from Maria Ressa

📢 Join our research team @ McGill University/Mila! I'm looking for two PhD and one post-doc to collaborate on cutting-edge projects in responsible AI, with a focus on algorithmic fairness and privacy. If you're interested, email me! Please retweet to help spread the word! 🌟

Spending this week in Kilifi, Kenya for the Masakhane Research Foundation planning work week. We are also getting an opportunity to celebrate our recent wins. Great job by the community.#ChangingTheWorld Masakhane #AfricanNLP #AfricanMachineLearning

Congratulations to our very own Krystal Kauffman & Raesetje Sefala for being named Rising Stars in AI Ethics & for @milamiceli being named on of the “100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics” by Women in AI Ethics. medium.com/women-in-ai-et…

Don't miss the visionary TED Talks from our CEO Pelonomi Moiloa (Pelonomi Moiloa), on locally-attuned AI preserving marginalized languages. 🌍 🔥 A story of hope and moving forward ♥️ 📽️How AI can keep disappearing languages alive ted.com/talks/pelonomi…

In this paper at NeurIPS Conference workshop on computational sustainability, Nyalleng Moorosi, Raesetje Sefala & Sasha Luccioni, PhD 🦋🌎✨🤗 take a critical look at "AI for Social Good" projects, including their roots in Information & Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) programs. openreview.net/forum?id=vjwYY…

Reminder about the ✨MARCH 25✨ submission deadline for the Responsible GenAI Workshop #CVPR2025!! We welcome 4-page papers at the intersection of responsible AI and generative AI. See full list of topics here: sites.google.com/view/cvpr-resp…

Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon's Raesetje Sefala introduces their session on "Designing for the Long Tail: Case Studies in Contextual ML Design", they argue that Big tech's "one model for all" approach aids their power centralization, while these models result in subpar performance@FAccTConference

We’re thrilled to announce the honorees for this year’s Rise25 awards! These are the 25 visionaries shaping the future of AI to benefit people. We can't wait to celebrate their work at our upcoming awards event in Dublin 🙌blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/moz…

Congrats to my friends Pelonomi Moiloa Raesetje Sefala for being selected 🔥 Very well deserved

Congratulations to our fellow Raesetje Sefala, researcher Kathleen S. and faculty affiliate Dr. Elaine Okanye Nsoesie for receiving the MozillaRise 25 awards 🎉🎉🎉 blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/moz… eblog.mozilla.org

Our community timeline emerging from Deep Learning Indaba looking back on 2 years with a beautiful community growing and learning together. Hakeem Omotayo Ashery Mbilinyi Mai Gamal Clifford Broni-Bediako Naome Etori idriss Tondji Houcemeddine Turki mennatullah siam Raesetje Sefala

Day 1. During the opening remarks, Raesetje Sefala is sharing ACVSS birth which emerged during Deep Learning Indaba 2023 in Accra. Since then, 10 organizers have been dedicating time to make the event happen.

Got an opportunity to visit the new African Computer Mission Summer School African Computer Vision Summer School. Congratulations to all the organisers and participants. Great seeing Abeba Birhane Dina Machuve Raesetje Sefala Dinorego 🇿🇦 and so many more friends in the AfricanAI ecosystem.

Day 3. Today, we had the privilege of learning from Abeba Birhane about the rise of AI and Computer Vision in surveillance. An exciting lecture with multiple workshops that challenged us to consider our own decisions regarding AI applications. #ACVSS

Day 4. Yet another great speaker. Big thanks to Karteek Alahari Karteek Alahari for lecturing on visual representation learning. So much knowledge was packed into a single lecture covering from incremental and multitask learning, all the way to continual learning. #ACVSS

Day 6. Saturday, we went to the Nairobi National Park for a safari day. It seems like we forgot about computer vision and images for a day, but did we ? Somehow, everyone kept taking pictures. Don't worry, more lectures are coming up very soon😉 #ACVSS