Makerere AI Lab

One-liner: The Makerere Artificial Intelligence Lab specializes in AI and data science applications for the developing world.

Company slogan: Artificial Intelligence research for accessible solutions

Positioning: Focused on applying AI and data science to address challenges in the developing world.

Description: “The Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Research Lab specializes in applying artificial intelligence and data science to real-world problems.
Our research uses techniques from Machine Learning, Computer vision, Natural Language Processing Remote Sensing and Predictive Analytics to improve areas like Agriculture, Health, Transport, Climate, AI Training Datasets

Applications:
Natural language processing for under-resourced languages
Automated diagnosis of both crop and human diseases
Auction design for mobile commodity markets
Analysis of traffic patterns in African cities, and of telecoms and
Remote sensing data for anticipating the spread of infectious diseases.”

Employees: 24

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Headquarters: Makerere University

Ownership: Partnership

Founded: –

Company type: AI company

Use cases: “Natural language processing for under-resourced languages, Automated diagnosis of crop and human diseases, Auction design for mobile commodity markets, Analysis of traffic patterns in African cities, Telecoms and remote sensing data analysis for infectious disease spread”

Pricing: –

Client sector: enterprise

Business model: grant-funded and project-based

Products: “End-to-end AI and data systems for COVID-19 management, Machine learning models for deforestation prediction, Localized agricultural advisory systems”

Is API available: no

Website title: AIR Lab

Website description: none

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/makerere-ai-and-data-science-research-lab

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Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/makerere-ai-lab

Email: joyce.nabende@mak.ac.ug