It was a privilege to contribute as a panel member at the ECDPM event on “AI for Social Good and Africa’s Strategic Choices”!
It was a critical conversation about balancing AI innovation with the governance and strategic choices necessary for Africa’s equitable development. Thank you to my fellow panelists for the rigorous exchange: Melody Musoni, PhD, Jane Munga, Amb - Prof Bitange Ndemo, and Maja Fjaestad. And special thanks to Chloe Teevan for moderating!
The past week BlueGreen Labs provided expert input at the Hermes Bring-Your-Own-Data (BYOD) workshop on text recognition and text analysis at the Leibniz-Institute for European History (IEG). The HERMES program provides resources teach topics in humanities education in research, data, and methods.
The workshop organized by Prof. Dr. Monika Barget brought together participants from the digital humanities to talk about data workflows, issues they encountered and the role of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) within this context.
Machine learning data for natural scenes and underrepresented landscapes
Adding UAV / drone capabilities to our services
We provide what is asked, but also what is needed
ETH students present their final pro-bono machine learning solutions
Automatically recognizing historical climate data entries
A machine learning dataset linking ground based cellphone images with ancillary data-streams