The Centring Data in African AI workshop examines the challenges and opportunities surrounding data in African AI through both technical and socio-technical lenses. The lightning talk session aims to highlight a variety of ground-level viewpoints from individuals, researchers, practitioners, community organizers, and other contributors across the African continent.
Accepted Lightning Talks
| Name | Talk Title | Part |
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| Praise Amonye | Blood, Bytes & Borders: Rethinking Data Sovereignty in AI-Driven Malaria Diagnosis in Africa | Part 1 |
| Nadine Nibigira | Using AI for Securing Critical Information Infrastructures | Part 1 |
| Onyewuchi Njoku | Combating Plant Pathogen Spread in Sub-Saharan Africa | Part 1 |
| Lyvia Lusiji | Data to Delivery: Designing LLMs for Maternal Health Impact in Low-Resource Settings | Part 1 |
| Yacouba Diarra | One Size Does Not Fit All: Tailoring Data Annotation Pipelines for African Languages | Part 2 |
| Daniel Mutembesa | The community knows what it wants! Crowd Wisdoms in Community Sensing for Datasets | Part 2 |
| Amos Mwendwa | The Data Gap in African Agriculture: Why Global AI models fail ASAL farmers | Part 2 |
| Astride Melvin Fokam Ninyim | Centring African Data in AI: Navigating Ethics, Quality, and Innovation in Local Contexts | Part 3 |
| Joy Victor | Who Owns African Data? Cyber Threats and the Fight for Digital Sovereignty | Part 3 |
For questions, issues, feedback, etc, please do not hesitate to reach us via email at centring-data-in-african-ai@googlegroups.com