Kathleen Siminyu

Regional Network Coordinator, Artificial Intelligence for Development - Africa

Artificial Intelligence for Development - Africa

Nairobi, Kenya

https://ai4d.ai/

https://twitter.com/AI4Dev/

Fostering African leadership and participation in AI and AI policy development.

About the work

Working on machine translation and automatic speech recognition models for low resource (African) languages.

Impact

The preservation of African languages, their inclusion in the digital ecosystem and educational tools/materials to increase literacy and improve local language education in Africa.