With the Bird Site implementing New Features*, it's time for another #ConnectionList #Introduction #FollowFriday #JoinMastodon #TwitterMigration post, where I use my large follower count to more richly connect the #Fediverse  

@sarahmei is Head of #Engineering at #BackerKit πŸ‘‹

@vukosi is Chair of #DataScience at the University of #Pretoria, and works with Deep Learning #Indaba and #Masakhane #NLP to aid African language technologies πŸ‘‹

@TomHoneyman leads work at #ARDC - the Australian Research Data Commons - to increase the recognition of #ResearchSoftware as a #research output πŸ‘‹

@trao is Tanushree and she is doing a #PhD at #Stockholm #University where she works on #aid, #migration, #inequality and #institutions. She's into #rstats and #dataviz πŸ‘‹

@KohaILS is the account for the #OpenSource integrated #Library system developed in #Aotearoa, and used around the world #GLAM πŸ‘‹

@verena_distler is a #PostDoc at #UniBw ain #Munich who works on #HCI in #Security and #Privacy #UsableSecurity πŸ‘‹

@wikidata is the #Mastodon account for the #Wikidata project, which aims to create #ontologies of #OpenData that can be re-used openly across the world πŸ‘‹ ⌨️

Don't forget to post your own #ConnectionList so we can more richly connect the #Fediverse ❀️

#Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur Natural Language Processing (#NLP) research in #African languages, for #Africans, by #Africans.

https://www.masakhane.io/

Extracted from a German news article about #GrassrootAI in #Africa.

https://www.heise.de/hintergrund/Missing-Link-Grassroot-KI-Afrikas-Aufholjagd-bei-Kuenstlicher-Intelligenz-7483386.html

Masakhane

Our Mission Masakhane is a grassroots organisation whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Despite the fact that 2000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages are barely represented in technology. The tragic past of