Future of Artificial Intelligence in Africa, World Bank, Pretoria, 1-5 October 2018

In collaboration with several Silicon Valley companies interested in ‘Artificial Intelligence for Good,’ the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNDP, several academic institutions, the International Decision Support Initiative (iDSI), the Global Health Costing Consortium (GHCC), and others, the World Bank is organizing a series of training courses to build capacity in big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and the use of decision science models in health (including HIV, TB and NCDs) and nutrition. The course is aimed at persons working at technical and program levels (typically with programs, M&E and data) from government, the international development community, academia interested in this field, and civil society.

One of the training courses will take place in Pretoria, South Africa, from 1-5 Oct 2018. Dr Jacques Ludik has been invited to be a speaker during this training course on 2 October 2018, specifically focusing on developments relating to and the future of machine intelligence in Africa, from the perspective of the work with the Machine Intelligence Institute of Africa.

Presentation: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oFnNwzCDtXxidBHm_q3Mi_TwzE_Z-fFZ/view?usp=sharing