Practising AI in Emerging markets

Building AI solutions requires a number of basic steps, and foundational infrastructure to deploy effectively. It is helpful to get a guide on how to acquire these foundational pieces in your country, such as power, data, internet, powerful computers.

Steps to Deploy AI

The Path to Successfully Deploying an Ai Solution in Africa

Define Problem

Need to properly select problems that can be tackled with data/ AI using either ML or DL.

After you've picked the problem, you select between machine learning and deep learning. This post does a nice job of explaining the difference between ML & DL, while below we summarize when you might choose to use either.

AI vs ML vs DL in Africa

Find Data

Need to find data that is available, cheap and in proper format. You'll have to capture, buy or build millions to hundreds of millions of examples of the behavior you desire.

After you've picked the problem, you select between machine learning and deep learning. This post does a nice job of explaining the difference between ML & DL, while below we summarize when you might choose to use either.

Open Data Initiatives

Search for data on large independent repositories of open data on the African continent

Data from Foundations

A number of development-focused organizations gather data and make them available for public use

Self-generated

Many startups are getting creative about collecting data they need themselves. Get Inspired by some examples below

Acquire Knowledge

Once again, your local AI communities are your best bet for acquiring knowledge on how to leverage AI. Below, we will list some useful online resources that members of our alliance have recommended.

Access Compute

Need the right hardware and software that greatly impact time to solution and quality of product to be any competitive. Broadly speaking, you will either buy these to setup in-house, or rent from the Public cloud.

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Directly from your website, access powerful-enough GPUs and compute for free. Perfect for students learning Ai who don't want to spend much money

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You are sure of how much load you have, have expertise to set it up and ability to provide power & security - save costs by building your own cluster

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This is the modern way. Easy to setup and grow or increase as you want, don't need much special skills. Gets expertise after a long time though

Build Model

There are hundreds of ML & DL model types and architectures. You can build from scratch for absolute control, or with tools that dramatically ease the process

Deploy Solution

Complete solutions need a willing partner to purchase or distribute it to reach millions. Many times connection to the right large partners is elusive.

Overtime at A4AI, we will work to create mechanisms for top AI project innovators to work with larger organizations to deploy, so their solutions realize the visions they are built for.

Learn about ways you can become part of our team either by starting your own chapter or becoming our representative in your city

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