“I think it’s the future, using AI in agriculture and healthcare. Most African economies rely on agriculture. So, being able to forecast yield better and manage water usage can help our continent grow to have a stronger and more stable economy.” Muhamed Tuo is a data scientist from Cote d’Ivoire…

“Hiring with Zindi was smooth, communication was easy and we recruited a valued team member who has been with the organisation for more than a year, which makes him one of our longest-serving employees — as we are a startup.” Álvaro Benito Fernández, benshi.ai, Media & Public Relations Officer. Understanding…

Zindi ambassadors are the fuel to our community, they help spread data science and Zindi to their communities in universities, community groups, and workplaces all over Africa. We have recently grown our ambassador program to more than 120 ambassadors from 20 African countries. “My role as a Zindi country ambassador…

“You know, when people see the name ‘Plato’, they don’t know I am female. So, for any competition I ended up being number 1, I would get some private messages like ‘Congratulations, brother’,” she laughs. “Most people on the platform still don’t know I’m a woman. It feels really good…

Open banking platform Credrails partnered with Zindi’s community to build a machine learning model that can categorise bank statements, using data from 80 000+ transactions. According to Thuso Simon, Head of Data and ML at Credrails, the solutions will enable Credrails to build a better prediction model. “We created a…

In November 2021, Zindi and DeepMind, and several marine conservation organizations came together to design a challenge that would aid conservation efforts by using machine learning to distinguish between turtles of the same species. …

Zindi and AirQo have built on their long-standing relationship, with the winners of UmojaHack Africa 2022: Faulty Air Quality Sensor Challenge joining AirQo as interns to help put their winning models into practice. AirQo is a research initiative based at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda. AirQo uses AI to improve the…

“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…