Develop AI is dedicated to using AI to help people, newsrooms and businesses in Africa, MENA, Asia & Eastern Europe solve problems and reach their potential.
We offer world class AI training and one-on-one mentoring. And build AI projects for the public good.
We have helped dozens of organisations build AI tools of their own and trained 100s of people on how to use AI to improve their revenue and achieve their strategic goals.
We are experts in AI policy creation and have helped organisations around the world build AI policies and legal frameworks in order to navigate the turbulence caused by AI.
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Our AI projects:
1) AI for African Languages. We believe that AI has the power to bring information to everyone in all languages, but the data is needed. We engage with organisations across Africa to build datasets that allow language translation to stay open and remain relevant.
2) Grounded. GROUNDED is fully open source, shared AI infrastructure for newsrooms — a platform where a newsroom builds its own AI workflows from a team of prepackaged AI agents. This is packaged with intense mentoring from the Develop AI team to make sure the software to constantly updating and tailored to the evolving media landscape. When one newsroom builds a workflow that works, like verify a story, rewrite it for social, and translate it into a different language, that workflow becomes available across the whole network. Built once, used everywhere. Each newsroom runs its own Node: a locally-deployed instance of the platform that keeps sensitive material on the newsroom's own hardware and stays online even when the connection isn't.
3) HealthPIN. People need to utilise AI for their health in a way that is not extractive and an invasion of privacy. We are looking at tools that allow people to manage and track their own health without handing over their data.
4) AI Law, Regulation & Security. Keeping track of what laws and policies, locally and globally, is important in the world of AI. We make it our business to make sure this information is easily accessible and possible to implement.
5) AI Data Extraction Training in Schools. How to use AI tools is being pushed at children, teachers and parents, but the missing layer is data literacy: what is being collected, by whom, for what and at what aggregate cost. Schools are where that asymmetry is sharpest. The same tools sold as educational goods depend on the systematic harvesting of personal information from learners and the adults around them and the communities least equipped to negotiate that trade are the ones being most aggressively trageted. We are scaling age-appropriate, audience-specific data literacy through South African schools, grounded in the realities of Africa. The aim is not abstinence (that ship has sailed) but informed engagement.
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