Gladys Tyen and Walter Myer are students of computational linguistics at the University of Cambridge, who joined Africa’s Voices for a summer internship. They developed machine learning techniques and a crowdsourcing web app that will help us to analyse text messages in dialects and slang like Sheng. Here, they explain their tasks,...
Africa’s Voices’ Sharath Srinvasan and Claudia Lopes have contributed a chapter, titled ‘Africa’s Voices Versus Big Data? The Value of Citizen Engagement through Interactive Radio’, to the ‘Voice and Matter‘ anthology. The volume brings together research that was presented at the fourth Ørecomm Festival in September 2014, and makes “important contributions...
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD) is an open, multi-stakeholder network that harnesses the data revolution for sustainable development. Africa’s Voices recently joined this unprecedented network as a ‘Data Champion’. We commit to sharing our learnings with the GPSDD partners on how best to gather, analyse and amplify citizen-generated...
Organisations that have taken up the challenge of eradicating polio share ideas and successes on The Polio Network. This is a sub-community of The Communications Initiative Network, which brings together communication and media development, and social and behaviour change actors. Africa’s Voices project with UNICEF Somalia was recently featured in the forum:...
On Monday 27 June, Africa’s Voices presented how we overcome three common challenges that many organisations working with citizen-generated data face. The presentation was broadcast online for DataShift’s community call (webinar). We discussed: how Africa’s Voices builds and sustains citizen engagement during interactive radio projects, how we gather and analyse local language...
Africa’s Voices’ Director led a panel at The Hay Festival 2016 with Well Told Story‘s Rob Burnet and iamtheCODE founder Mariéme Jamme. When this century began, one per cent of Africans had mobile phone subscriptions. Only 15 years later, it’s 40 per cent. “Big changes in communications parallel big changes in society, in economics...
