Recently updated on October 24th, 2022 at 03:20 pm
Data Science Nigeria (DSN) has received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award in Kenya and emerged the second best at the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia.
The Founder of the Data Science Nigeria (DSN) Mr. Bayo Adekanmbi in Kenya, received the Wangari Maathai 2019 Impact Award for training Nigerian data scientists and strengthening the African machine learning and Artificial Intelligence ecosystem more broadly.
At the first Deep Learning Indaba Continental event in Tunisia, DSN presented 5 posters and the ‘NaLie’ crowdsourced app.
The NaLie crowdsourced app project aimed to address text-related financial fraud (one of the barriers to financial inclusion) using crowdsourcing.
The app uses crowdsourced fake bank alerts, fake job and promos, etc.
With the ‘NaLie” crowdsourced app, DSN will be representing Africa at the World Artificial Intelligence Summit scheduled for Netherlands in October [2019], fully sponsored by the Deep Learning Indaba.
Data Science Nigeria since inception in less than 3 years has developed itself to become a strategic capacity building intervention to raise 1 million AI talents in 10 years, and position Nigeria for transformational AI in research, Innovation and business/social use cases.
DSN has established its credentials as an emerging market best practice, through which hundreds of thousands have benefited from its multiple learning platforms (face to face, online and offline).
The DSN free ebook has seen over 500,000 downloads while its AI knowledge Box of over 10,000 AI videos is raising global standard in access to to AI Knowledge.
Speaking further on the awards, the Founder of DSN Mr. Bayo Adekanmbi said:
“We are proud of multiple PhD researchers and over 300 students who have secured job/internship placement through us. So proud of what we have achieved together in less than 3 years and I believe 1 million AI talents in 10 years is possible.”
