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Spiffy's Blog
Welcome back! Spiffy here, your interplanetary journalist reporting from Planet Earth with an eye on entrepreneurs working to make this world more equitable. Today I’m super excited to speak with Rose Nakasi, project lead at the Makerere University.
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Monitor Uganda
Dr Rose Nakasi is pioneering AI-driven disease diagnosis at Makerere University, using machine learning to revolutionise microscopy, enhance accuracy, and improve healthcare efficiency in Uganda.
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Words that Count
Meet Rose, a distinguished Artificial Intelligence researcher whose work is at the forefront of technological innovation in healthcare. Her research interests lie at the intersection of Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
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Lacuna Fund
Lacuna Fund is a coalition of funders, data scientists, and data users including The Rockefeller Foundation, Google.org, and other global partners committed to filling data gaps and making machine learning and AI more equitable and accessible.
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Straight Talk Africa
In this edition of Straight Talk Africa, Vincent Makori explores how Artificial Intelligence is evolving in Africa and discusses whether it can fuel economic growth, with Dr. Rose Nakasi among the featured guests.
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Welt-sichten
The research project, which recently received funding from Google, is led by computer scientist Rose Nakasi. The article highlights how AI-supported microscopy can deliver results within minutes in clinical settings.
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UBC Television Uganda
Makerere University College of Computing and Information Sciences won USD 1.5 million from Google to further research on automated disease screening using artificial intelligence.
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Makerere News
Makerere University received a grant worth US$1,500,000 from Google to support the Ocular project, which is researching the use of Artificial Intelligence to enhance diagnosis of malaria, tuberculosis, and cervical cancer in Uganda.
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