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Africa is experiencing rapid growth in digital innovation. An increasing number of tech startups, innovation hubs, and initiatives that aim..

platform can help residents stay safe and give governments time to prepare. The platform uses AI models to predict when and where riverine floods will occur in 23 African countries. The platform displays the forecasts up to seven days in advance, with detailed inundation maps – showing different levels predicted in different areas.Farms in Africa are known for undergoing seasons where pests are a severe problem, affecting food crops. Locusts is one of them.

Together with InstaDeep – an AI-product-focused company and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Google’s AI Center in Ghana is helping to better detect locust outbreaks and enable farmers to implement control measures. The research center is in the process of building a model that forecasts locust breeding grounds using historical data from the FAO and environmental variables like rainfall and temperature.The state of hospitals in African countries can be appalling. Many hospitals do not have the infrastructure or tools to provide the most basic care to their patients which often leads to severe complications and even death.

This device will benefit people who are not trained to operate traditional ultrasound machines to acquire and interpret ultrasound images and distinguish between high and low-risk patients simply by sweeping the handheld probe across the mother’s belly., an Android app that uses AI research to help people with non-standard speech communicate with ease, is another one of Google’s latest AI products.

The app that is now available for use in Ghana, transcribes speech into text, uses a synthesized voice to repeat what the speaker has said; and engages with Google Assistant to complete tasks, like asking for directions, playing a song, or turning on the lights.According to statistics recorded between 1985-2023, the literacy rate in Sub-Saharan Africa is a mere

 

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