In celebration of International Mother Language Day on February 21, a group of African computer and language experts is planning a community-driven push to expand the accessibility of PCs to African ...

Emmanuel Dufourq has been a “computer conservationist” since 2019 when he classified hours of sound recordings using machine learning and deep neural networks. The 1,5 terabytes of recorded calls were ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

AI tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the Global North and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing ...

White African looks at African computer games: “A recent post on a Kenyan 3D game, and spurred on by a comment (and subsequent emails) from a Ghanaian game developer, has led me to do some more ...

Emerging economies in Africa often have relationships with developed nations through dark colonial pasts, but today, digital tech is connecting previously unexpected partners. Developed nations ...