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Lacuna Fund Announces its Second Round of Funding to Projects Supporting Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies Across Africa

Supported projects will produce text and speech datasets for natural language processing (NLP) technologies that will have significant downstream impacts on education, financial inclusion, healthcare, agriculture, communication, and disaster response in Sub-Saharan Africa

The partner organisations behind Lacuna Fund (www.LacunaFund.org) -- 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) (www.GIZ.de) GmbH (German Development Cooperation) -- announce the second cohort of supported projects. Funding recipients…

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International ‘Contest Against Corona’ 2.0 by GIZ fights Covid-19 with Educational Quiz Game

The GIZ’s digital learning project ‘atingi’ launches innovative Covid-19 information campaign in MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia

The fun, gamified Covid-19 international information campaign ‘Contest Against Corona’ (https://contest.atingi.org) is now back this April 21st-May 21st, after reaching 100.000 participants in 54 countries with the first contest in December. The contest is sponsored by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) and organized by atingi (www.atingi.org),…

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African Youth Using atingi to Future-Proof their Careers in a Covid-Impacted Job Market

GIZ free online learning platform atingi helping Africa’s jobseekers achieve their #FutureGoals

The coronavirus pandemic has had severe socioeconomic consequences in Africa including increased unemployment and loss of income. It has, however, also demonstrated the increasing importance of digital technology in responding effectively to crises and planning for recovery, not the least of which is in the fields of education and vocational…

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Covid-19 Sees Growth of eLearning in Africa, just in time for atingi.org

New German-backed platform brings Free, Premium eLearning to Africa’s Jobseekers just as African eLearning Market booms

www.atingi.org, a free-to-use eLearning platform, is now available in 54 countries across the continent. Africa’s e-learning market has seen substantial growth due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, with the use of e-learning applications and platforms surging as schools and universities are forced to deliver lessons virtually, and people use eLearning…