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A talk on 'Low Resource Language Data Challenges for LLMs' by Meta's Aisha Iqbal and a subsequent discussion with Dr. Sarah Luger from ML Commons and Consumer Reports, as we wind up the Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models, and Innovation workshop. Deep Learning Indaba #DLI2024

Our last segment “Behind the Research: Author Insights” closes out the Empowering African Voices in AI: Data, Models, and Innovation workshop. We are grateful to all those who have participated throughout the day. Lanfrica Chris Chinenye Emezue Data Science Law Lab #DLI2024

Truly exciting to draft and launch this! Now on to feedback from the NLP community 🙏🏾🙏🏾

🪘🪘Proud & excited to formally announce our Nwulite Obodo Open Data License version 1.0, now open for comments and feedback. Thanks Chijioke Okorie Melissa Omino Data Science for Social Impact Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 Learn more and join the movement: datasciencelawlab.africa/nwulite-obodo-…

One night; two awards!! Incredibly thankful to have received the Exceptional Young Researcher Award and the certificate awarded in recognition of my National Research Foundation of South Africa C2 rating at the University of Pretoria Academic Achievers’ Awards ceremony on Tuesday (05 November 2024) evening. 1/5.

Congratulations to our Dr O (Chijioke Okorie)! Keep inspiring us! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾

Join our Chijioke Okorie & other Africans doing incredibly important work on the data ecosystem at the #Mozfest Data Futures Showcase today! The event will be streamed via YouTube (youtube.com/live/UN5A1JUJD…) and LinkedIn (linkedin.com/posts/mozilla-…). It will be electric!!!⚡️⚡️⚡️

As 2024 draws to a close, read the message from our Chijioke Okorie sharing some of the work we've done to support innovation and the growth of data science research, development and application across Africa. Here’s what we have done, shared and learnt: datasciencelawlab.africa/end-of-year-me…

Highlights from AI4D African Language Lab Workshop #2! 🎉 Discussed improving NLP for African languages with experts in Linguistics, Computer Science, and more. Key focus: AI tools to enhance language teaching and set 2025 research priorities. Read here! dsfsi.github.io/blog/UP-AI4D-W…

We are collaborating with Data Science for Social Impact for a publication project on Legal-technical AI governance and regulation in Africa. Here’s how to send an abstract & collaborate with us: datasciencelawlab.africa/cfp-legal-tech…

INVITATION: You’re invited to our: #WorldIPDay 2025 (Register to attend in person or online: forms.gle/Ti9qpEfsZMPNcb…) & Africa, Law and [Emerging] Technologies Policy Hackathon Demo Day 2025 (Register to attend in person or online: forms.gle/23bhnAxtTRmcBN…). Details in the flyers.

6/ 💫 A Galactic Alliance of Acknowledgements These victories were made possible by the unwavering support of: * ABSA Chair of Data Science * OpenAI (research compute credits) * SADiLaR, Grain SA * FCDO and IDRC (AI4D) Legal guidance from Dr. Chijioke Okorie of Data Science Law Lab

What a day! 🎉 Our Africa, Law & [Emerging] Technologies Policy Hackathon Demo Day 2025 was replete with bold, deployable ideas to for IP + innovation in Africa💡 Huge thanks to our expert judges, Chijioke Okorie & congrats to all teams—esp. our top 3! Stay tuned for our report!

📢 Highlights from our #PolicyHackathon + #WorldIPDay2025 events are now on our blog! 🚀 Dive into how students are rethinking IP, law, and innovation in SA’s creative economy. Policy Hackathon: datasciencelawlab.africa/resourcess/blo… Data science meets music law: datasciencelawlab.africa/resourcess/dat…

📘 The full reports from our 2025 Policy Hackathon [zenodo.org/records/155701… ] and WorldIPDay 2025 Exhibition [zenodo.org/records/155700…] are now available!   Edited by Chijioke Okorie & Takudzwa Matekwe, these docs highlight law, tech & innovation in action.

🚀 Help shape African language tech! Take a quick 10-15 min survey by DSFSI's to build fair, community-driven machine translation & small language models for African languages. Your voice matters! 🌍🗣️ 👉 forms.gle/NrDg7kn3jqs3dt… cc Masakhane #AfricanLanguages

Last month, our Chijioke Okorie spoke with Data Science for Social Impact’s Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊 and Dr Chidi on navigating copyright in African data science & NLP projects. 📊 Real project insights 🧠 Legal strategies ⚖️ What law should change 🔗 Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=ZQc-I4…

WATCH: Chijioke Okorie presented her keynote at the Conference on the state of AI in Africa in June. She identified avenues to opportunities in the AI innovation and IP space in Africa that are to be seized in scaling AI innovation. youtube.com/watch?v=d8G0LE…

We now have a Plain Language Explainer & a Summary Sheet for the NOODL License! These resources were created by our Chijioke Okorie & Strathmore CIPIT's Melissa Omino & explains the key provisions of the License in plain language: licensingafricandatasets.com/resources

Our Yeukai Pedzisa was at Day 1 of the Law Schools Global League Academic Conference 2025 where Prof Chijioke Okorie & Melissa Omino presented their award-winning paper on the #NOODL License. Yeukai pens an event report: datasciencelawlab.africa/presentation-o…