The Research

Making AI Work for Internet Inclusiveness in the Global South

TIBaLLi: Making AI Work for Internet Inclusiveness in the Global South, seeks to ask, and answer the question; Can advanced AI methods (ML, NLP) be reconstructed so as to make the Internet more inclusive for communities in low-resource environments in the Global South --- such that local weather data combined with Internet-based global climate information become sharable beyond the Internet’s current boundaries and in people’s own language?

We proposed to this by a Participatory Action Research (PAR) methodology where individuals and communities are conceived of as first-class partners in a co-creation approach involving data gathering of audio recordings of brief utterances (e.g., a range of natural numbers) by a varied range of community members in a single language (Dagbani, in Year 1 of the project) and Data analysis by means of AI methodology for Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for low-resource environments.