Lacuna Fund
Masakhane participated in a Request for Proposals to receive grants from the Lacuna Fund. The goal is the Lacuna Fund is to put the benefits of machine learning within reach of data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs worldwide, by funding creation of locally relevant datasets.
Our of the 6 proposals submitted by the Masakhane Consortium, four of them were awarded funding for the Language Datasets RFP.
For more details about each of the proposals please access them below:
The Masakhane Consortium was formed in order to provide support skills to the independent researchers leading the above projects, as follows:
Knowledge4All - Operations Partner
Strathmore CIPIT - Legal Partner
Bantucracy - Ethics Partner