Masakhane – pioneering participatory approaches to building African language technologies, for Africans, by Africans

Masakhane's “Masakhane – pioneering participatory approaches to building African language technologies, for Africans, by Africans” was honoured with one of the Special Prizes at the Prix Ars Electronica 2023, category Digital Humanity. Explore 1 other work by Masakhane below.

Masakhane is a grassroots organization whose mission is to strengthen and spur NLP research in African languages, for Africans, by Africans. Despite the fact that 2,000 of the world’s languages are African, African languages are barely represented in technology.

About Masakhane

Masakhane (https://www.masakhane.io) is the OPEN RESEARCH, PARTICIPATORY, GRASSROOTS NLP INITIATIVE FOR AFRICANS BY AFRICANS, with the aim of putting African research in NLP on the map, by holistically tackling the problems facing NLP.

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