“In 2019, I participated in a Zindi hackathon as a group with two brilliant guys — Ajayi and John — where we emerged second place. It was during the program, at the grand finale in Rwanda, that I met my future co-founder Enock,” says Solomon Igori, a data enthusiast, Zindian…

Earlier this year, Zindi and Google partnered together to organize a 4-part Natural Language Processing (NLP) hackathon series which included an African Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) workshop and 3 challenges centred on speech recognition, sentiment analysis, and speech data collection. The Google NLP Hack Series spanned two months and kicked…

When we gave Sam Masikini a Zindi shirt at the Deep Learning Indaba 2019 in Nairobi, Kenya, he was so excited he did a backflip right there in the conference hall in front of the Zindi booth, where he met Celina Lee, the co-founder and CEO of Zindi, and Amy…

“I learned about Zindi at an online NVIDIA conference I attended during the pandemic. I joined the platform and started competing immediately. It gave me an opportunity to become involved in discussions and on the message boards, and the opportunity to compete on teams.” — Michiel George Ferreira (or MG) is a mathematician from South Africa. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and an MSc in Mathematics from the University of Pretoria. His love for mathematics and desire to stay relevant with the latest development in the labour market at the time led him…

2022 is the year UmojaHack Africa grew up. From a chaotic start in 2020 amidst a new global pandemic, UmojaHack Africa has grown and developed into the leading hackathon in the African data science space. …

UmojaHack Africa is Africa’s largest inter-university machine learning hackathon, taking place this year 19–20 March 2022 at universities all over the continent. …

A collaboration between Zindi, Mtoto News, Basic Needs Basic Rights Kenya, and Qhala has created a chatbot powered by machine learning that serves as a mental health companion for young people in Kenya, specifically university students. …

“While working as a software engineer at Andela, I would occasionally hop in and participate in Zindi competitions — I think that was from 2018. I was only a user for a while. Then after I left Andela, I ventured into contracting because I was focusing on starting my business…

Data science communities are bootstrapping a new revolution in Africa. For Paul Kennedy, reflecting on two years of community-building at Zindi, it’s a joy and a privilege to be a small part of the movement. When I joined Zindi as Community Manager in December 2019, I had very little idea…