Maseno Centre for Applied Artificial Intelligence

Help Build Inclusive AI for African Languages! We are collecting speech data in Dholuo and Kikuyu. You will respond to text and image prompts on various domains. To participate, email kencorpus@maseno.ac.ke or fill: forms.gle/bUE6vnSXrRKwCL… @MasakhaneNLP @IndabaXKenya

MCAAI is proud to co-host IndabaX Kenya 2025 with @Maseno_Uni School of Computing & Informatics. This year’s summit will explore AI in Politics & Democracy. 👥 500+ attendees 🎤 35+ speakers 🧪 Hands-on labs 🚀 African AI demos Thanks to the team of volunteers making this happen.

AfriHate, presented at #NAACL2025, is a multilingual hate speech dataset for 15 African languages, including Swahili, Hausa & Yorùbá. Curated with local communities, it supports safer online content moderation. 📄 arxiv.org/abs/2501.08284

The call for speakers for IndabaX Kenya (Maseno University AI Summit) closes on May 1st. If you are interested in AI/ML and would like to speak on topics related to AI applications (in-person/virtually), apply via: forms.gle/AmKuSuFDuEnd2j… @DeepIndaba @IndabaXKenya @mcaai_msu

@Maseno_Uni's Maseno Centre for Applied AI is harnessing AI for community-driven innovation. We are creating diverse language technologies that are rooted on community impact.