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I’m very excited to be in Dakar for Deep Learning Indaba 2024 next week! I am even more excited to co-organise and join the workshop “𝗩𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮: 𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝗳𝗿𝗮𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗟𝗣” alongside a great team from Masakhane DSNai - Data Science Nigeria Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH “FAIR Forward - Artificial Intelligence for All. The workshop will take place on Friday, 6 September 2024. We will explore state-of-the-art Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies for African languages, their role in creating social impact and how to foster this impact through research and collaborations across the African continent. We also have website with more details! https://lnkd.in/etyiUd7d 𝙄𝙛 𝙮𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙩 𝘿𝙇𝙄, 𝙡𝙚𝙩 𝙢𝙚 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙟𝙤𝙞𝙣 𝙪𝙨 𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙠𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙥! 𝙄 𝙖𝙢 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚. Tajuddeen Gwadabe Hatem Haddad Chinazo Anebelundu Daniel Brumund Howard Lakougna Jonas Nothnagel Isaac Manzi Balthas Seibold Deshni Govender Andrew Bredenkamp, PhD. CLEAR Global #deeplearningindaba

Don't miss out on this upcoming free event with Julián Picotto, of Translators without Borders, to be held ON SITE on Friday August 16 at 6:30 pm local time at the Facultad de Lenguas- UNC in #cordoba, #argentina. /TBOTALKS_ by tbolab | El Impacto de Traducir sin Fronteras    Translators without Borders (TWB) es una comunidad global de más de 100.000 voluntarios que ofrecen servicios lingüísticos a organizaciones humanitarias en todo el mundo. Julián Picotto es traductor público con experiencia en el sector humanitario y gestiona proyectos dentro de la organización. En esta presentación nos cuenta sobre su misión: ayudar a las personas a obtener información vital y a ser escuchadas, independientemente del idioma que hablan. 📅 Viernes 16/08  🕢 18:30 🏫 Auditorio Facultad de Lenguas - UNC | Ciudad Universitaria 🆓 Entrada gratuita 👤 Cupos limitados Si querés participar de la charla PRESENCIAL, completá este formulario: https://lnkd.in/dWdpX5yp Para más información: tbolab.com tbo tbotalent #translation #localization #interpreting #volunteering

Coming soon to a screen and bookstore near you! :) Publication: 29 July It's been 20 years since the aid sector declared 'zero tolerance' on SEA. Emily Elderfield and I were privileged to work with a fabulous group of authors led and edited by Jasmine Westendorf and Elliot Dolan-Evans to reflect on what progress we have made and what needs to change to offer better protection. Getting better at listening and communicating will be key. CLEAR Global Translators without Borders

🌱 We just learnt a lot! A couple weeks ago, we wrapped up 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗴𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘂𝗹𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗘𝘅𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺 (𝗔𝗜𝗘𝗣) 𝗶𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 in Gaya, Bihar! 🇮🇳 For the second time, the #AIEP team from #GIZ, with whom I have the pleasure to work, convened the four great teams that are currently developing the MVPs of the AIEP alongside government representatives and experts from #AI to #agriculture to discuss progress, challenges and learnings. Being in Gaya, we also had the chance to go to the countryside to meet with farmers to discuss their needs and challenges and to demo the MVPs with them. But we also want to share our learnings so here are some of our key learnings: 👥 𝗔𝘀𝗸 𝗮 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱 #𝗳𝗮𝗿𝗺𝗲𝗿: Most farmers want to confirm information they receive with their peers, and our digital solutions need to be designed to work in this environment. But younger farmers are our likely early adopters that can move their peers along! 📟 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝘀𝗮𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗲𝗰𝗵: Many are experimenting and deploying Retrieval Augmented Generation #RAG pipelines to leverage #LLMs for their services but to build solutions that create value, there is a lot of work to do in fine-tuning these pipelines, especially when working in non-majority languages. Names for diseases differ a lot, the output might be too long and technical to be useful and the speech recognition system might not understand key terms while your overall indicators show reasonably good performance. Our systems work but there remains a good deal of work to optimise them. 🫱🏽🫲🏾 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘁 𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀: There are many who work to provide digital solutions to farmers, and reusable components to peers. We are working to contribute open-source pieces and Digital Public Goods ourselves and the potential to leverage the #DPGs and Digital Public Infrastructure that others are building is huge! We wouldn’t have had such a successful gathering without the support of the kind experts who shared their insights with us. Therefore, thank you very much Lilian D. A. Wanzare, PhD., Mithun Madhusudan, Prasanta Ghosh, Utkarsh Vijay, Revati Vaidya Rajeesh Menon aparna singh Vinod Rajasekaran Any thoughts, ideas or would like to get engaged? We would love to hear from you! Comment below or contact me or the team at GIZ Christian Merz Kirti Pandey Vikram Kumar Florence Kinyua Lisa Werkmeister directly! #DigitalAgriculture #AgriTech #AIinAgriculture #sustainableAgriculture #AgriculturalInnovation Viamo Sahaj Software HarvestPlus Producers Direct Digital Green Karya Gram Vaani Gooey.AI DeHaat Dalberg International Rice Research Institute SumArth IFFCO Kisan Suvidha Limited Dexian Howard Lakougna Stewart Collis Srivalli Krishnan