By Mutuvi Janet
Kenya will host an academy for researchers and scholars on artificial intelligence and machine learning in Africa from December 12-16 in Mombasa.
The academy will bring together 75 PhD, masters and post-doctorate students together with their supervisors from 22 universities across 18 African countries who will be exposed to strategies of commercializing solutions from their research endeavors.
The researchers will also be sensitized on ethical issues related to artificial intelligence and machine learning to enable them conduct sustained research.
African Centre for Technology Studies Executive Director Prof. Tom Ogada said that the scholars and researchers will also explore how capacity-building programmes on artificial intelligence and machine learning can be expanded to enable wider access to scholars. It will also provide an opportunity for networking among the researchers.
“The academy is meant to deepen the skills and knowledge required to drive research and deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions in the continent,” he said.
The academy will be facilitated by experts from Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Ghana, University of Linkoping in Sweden, University Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar in Senegal, University of California, United States; Human Sciences Research Council and Institute for Humanities in Africa based in South Africa and the University of Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique.
