Empowering global south communities for inclusion of low resource languages with machine translation

Susanna Raj & Sudha Jamthe will share the learning from Global South in AI’s pilot program to empower global south communities to upskill AI research with training, datasets and multi- lingual machine translation models. Come find out the challenges of Upskilling new learners in a global south country in a culture preserving way and the takeaways in model building for multiple African languages in an ever expanding world of LLMs.

This talk is for anyone who wants to join us in the audacious goal of building a generic machine translation model and building curriculum to upskill AI capacity for low resource learners in the global south languages.