Language technology / community speech and textAfrican language technologyParticipation documented
MakerereNLP
Kampala, Uganda
The project builds open text and speech datasets for East African languages using community contributions and grassroots Masakhane practices.
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- Region
- Africa
- Lead organization
- Masakhane; Makerere University AI Lab
- Organization type
- grassroots community network
- Technology group
- speech and NLP datasets
- Activity status
- active
- Start year
- 2021
- Last updated
- Mar 25, 2026
- Participation mode
- community data creation and collaborative language technology development
- Participants
- language community members; annotators; researchers; speakers
- Methods
- crowdsourcing; alliance creation; community data collection; collaborative model building
- AI lifecycle stages
- data collection; labeling; model training; evaluation
- Evidence summary
- The project builds open text and speech datasets for East African languages using community contributions and grassroots Masakhane practices.
- Atlas assessment
- Core · High confidence · evidence grade A
- Uncertainty
- Public evidence indicates that stakeholders directly shaped AI design, data, deployment, evaluation, or oversight; residual uncertainty concerns the exact degree of shared decision power rather than project existence.
- Participation group
- Community Led
- Technology description
- speech and NLP datasets
- Funding
- Not documented
- Region of activity
- multi-country
- Verification status
- Live Verified
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