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Lacuna Fund announces second round of funding to projects supporting Natural Language Processing technologies Across Africa

The partner organisations behind Lacuna Fund, Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Google.org, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the initiative “FAIR Forward: Artificial Intelligence for All”, implemented by Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH, announced the second cohort of supported projects. The funding recipients will create openly accessible text and speech datasets that will fuel natural language processing (NLP) technologies in 29 languages across Africa. The teams will produce training datasets in Eastern, Western, and Southern Africa that will support a range of needs for low resource languages, including machine translation, speech recognition, named entity recognition and part of speech tagging, sentiment analysis, and multi-modal datasets. All datasets produced will be locally developed and owned, and will be openly accessible to the international data community.

Makerere katumbaBalthas seiboldAshesi university boatengLacuna fundUniversity of ibadan nweyaUniversity of zambia sikasoteRockefeller foundationCanada international development research centreNatural language processingAcross africaPie kamauInternational development research centreArtificial intelligenceDeutsche gesellschaftInternationale zusammenarbeitSouthern africa

Lacuna Fund Announces its Second Round of Funding to Support a Community-led Movement Towards Locally Developed and Owned Language Datasets Across Africa

Lacuna Fund Announces its Second Round of Funding to Support a Community-led Movement Towards Locally Developed and Owned Language Datasets Across Africa
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South africaJennifer prattVukosi marivateAshley changMwilliam asikoMeridian instituteLacuna fundRockefeller foundation africa regional officeCanada international development research centreGerman development cooperationLacuna fund secretariatInternational development research centreRockefeller foundationData science at university of pretoriaMinistry for economic cooperationSouthern africa

Tilapia researcher gets international fellowship

Tilapia researcher gets international fellowship Updated: Updated: Sreeja Lakshmi to study development of a vaccine for aquaculture industry Share Article Sreeja Lakshmi to study development of a vaccine for aquaculture industry Sreeja Lakshmi, a researcher in Tilapia, has been awarded a fellowship to study the development of a nano particle vaccine to be used in India s aquaculture industry. Tilapia is a very important fish in India’s aquaculture industry. Over the past decade, the Tilapia Lake Virus has been causing havoc among producers of this fresh water fish. If one infected fish gets into the water, it takes only four to ten days for the infection to spread to the other fish,” she said.

Sreeja lakshmiAlagappa universityInternational development research centreInternational veterinary vaccinology networkTilapia lake virusUnion ministerஅழகப்பா பல்கலைக்கழகம்சர்வதேச வளர்ச்சி ஆராய்ச்சி மையம்சர்வதேச கால்நடை தடுப்பூசி வலைப்பின்னல்தொழிற்சங்கம் அமைச்சர்

Industry gets its claws out to protect sugar market sha

Industry gets its claws out to protect sugar market sha
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We mapped the landscape for taxes on sugary drinks in seven African countries

We mapped the landscape for taxes on sugary drinks in seven African countries
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United kingdomSouth africaSusan goldsteinKaren hofmanAgnes erzseSafura abdool karimGlobal health actionInternational development research centreCentre for health economicsUnited nationsUniversity of the witwatersrandWorld health organisationSaharan africaSouth african medical research council centreHealth economicsAbdool karim