Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be reconstructed so as to make the Internet more inclusive for communities in low-resource environments in the Global South — such that local weather data combined with Internet-based global climate information become sharable beyond the Internet’s current boundaries and in people’s own language? It […]
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A BBC web article “‘Siri, will talking ever top typing?’ By Padraig Belton features our work done on voice interfaces for farmer information in Northern Ghana. Francis Dittoh talks about the need for specific information for farmers in their own language and discusses ongoing research into our Kasadaka system. Anna […]
[crosspost from victordeboer.com] As part of the ongoing W4RA efforts, the VU ICT4D team visited West-Africa once more. This time, we visited Mali, Burkina Faso and Ghana. I personally went to Ghana to talk to external PhD candidate Francis Dittoh and his colleagues at the University of Development Studies (UDS) […]
Chris van Aart at the ICTD 2013 Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. By Francis Dittoh, Chris van Aart, Victor de Boer ABSTRACT We present a study conducted in rural Northern Ghana about issues around the marketing of agricultural products and the need of mobile-based ICT solutions, including the use […]