A.I. & M.L. Doctoral & Early Career Research Scholarship for Women Candidates in Sub-Saharan Africa

AI4D Scholarship Enhancing Doctoral and Early Career Research in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in Sub-Saharan Africa by Women Candidates

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Background:

The African Centre for Technology Studies (ACTS) has received a grant from the International Development Research Centre(IDRC) and UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) to support the scholarship of women candidates in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding will support the training of PhD students in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML)as well as the research work of Early Career Academics in AI &ML. The research work within this program must be in AI that addresses any of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

The award of the scholarships shall strive to achieve uniform distribution of beneficiaries across Francophone, Anglophone and Lusophone sub-Saharan Africa. There will also be an effort to achieve fair distribution in terms of region. The supported studies MUST adhere to responsible AI.

Data Collection: 

The studies need to be solution facing, with a carefully designed problem definition which involves a user community, a systematic data collection regime which will result in good quality data that will be used to develop solutions with predictive/diagnostic/generative precision. Please note that elaborate and precise data collection with the user communities is the main factor that ensures usability of a solution and therefore its success in deployment. Data collected in this project will be accessible to the grant manager and published to support future research activities in accordance with IDRC Open Access Policy.

You will be required to show active efforts to deploy the solutions beyond the studies.

Eligible Countries: Angola, Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Cote d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini (Formerly Known as Swaziland), Ethiopia, Gabon, Gambia, The Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Liberia, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Sudan, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe.