NVIDIA is working with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to provide governments and developer communities in 10 countries with data science training and technology to support more informed policymaking and resources. is accelerating the allocation method.
The initiative will empower national statistical offices – agencies that process census data, economic policy, health care, and more – by providing AI hardware, training for data scientists, and ecosystem support.
Known as the United AI Alliance, the initiative is led by UNECA, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data to Promote Data Partnerships for the Public Good (Global Partnership), and NVIDIA. Future Tech is an IT solutions provider based in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. NVIDIA Partner Networkis the Alliance’s first funding and global distribution partner.
“Population data is important information for policy decisions, such as urban planning, climate change response, and monitoring of the spread of COVID-19. We struggled to collect and report the data.”
Better public health data can help countries track real-time COVID infection rates, detect hotspots, and target response efforts. And beyond the pandemic, enhanced data systems will enable local experts to link demographics to agricultural data, climate trends and economic indicators.
Laying the foundation for long-term benefits
Future Tech covers the cost of procurement and oversees distribution and deployment. NVIDIA Certified System When data science workstation powered by NVIDIA RTX and NVIDIA Quadro RTX GPUs Starting with Ghana, Kenya, Rwanda, Senegal and Sierra Leone. Next are Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Somalia and Togo.
“Public institutions play a key role in providing data used for policymaking at all levels. We’re facing a huge gap in knowledge,” said Bob Venero, Founder and CEO of Future Tech.
To further support data science capabilities in each country, NVIDIA is working with local universities, research institutes, and the data science community to create a developer pipeline that can draw insights from census information and other data sources. is building.
Keith Strier, Vice President of AI Nation at NVIDIA, said: “By connecting these efforts with local developer ecosystems, we can help more organizations leverage this for the benefit of society.”
NVIDIA has put together a free curriculum. Deep Learning Laboratory Starting from the foundations such as accelerated computing with CUDA Python and accelerated data science workflows, it is tailored to the needs of national statistical offices around the world. We also provide access to country-specific workshops and data science education kits.
The initiative will extend the company’s support for AI and data science in Africa to NVIDIA Inception startup program and NVIDIA Emerging Chapter This initiative strengthens the emerging market developer community with educational and technical resources.
Using data to drive environmental and social progress
In the world, The pandemic has accelerated the transition to digitizationThe United AI Alliance is supporting this transformation by working with grassroots groups at the heart of AI development in Africa. It aims to empower data professionals in all regions to build meaningful solutions to local challenges.
Many developers on the continent are based in Kenya AI Center of Excellence Or the nonprofit Data Science Africa. The United AI Alliance combines many of these developers with governments to drive new data analytics projects.
Claire Melamed, CEO of Global Partnerships, said: “Together we can change that and together we can support data-driven progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals.”
The project’s initial focus is Africa, but collaborators plan to roll out the same model in Southeast Asia and Latin America.
For more information on this initiative, watch the replay session ofDemocratizing AI in Emerging Markets Through United AI Alliance” from NVIDIA GTC and visit United AI Alliance site.
learn more about NVIDIA Emerging Chapter, NVIDIA developer When NVIDIA Inception program, and free registration NVIDIA GTC will run online September 19-22.
The main image (left to right) shows Jean Paul Ngom and Ibrahima Diop of the National Statistics Office of Senegal, working on mobile workstations with NVIDIA GPUs.
