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De: "De Wet, F [fdw@sun.ac.za]" <fdw@sun.ac.za>

Objet: Lacuna Fund RFP

Date: 24 septembre 2020 à 13:18:42 UTC+2

À: Laurent Besacier <laurent.besacier@imag.fr>

Dear Laurent,

 

This RFP may be of interest to some members of SIGUL. Could you please share it with the community?

 

Thank you,

Febe de Wet

 

Lacuna Fund, a collaborative effort to mobilize datasets for machine learning that solve urgent problems in low- and middle-income contexts globally, has issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for datasets in language in Sub-Saharan Africa. 

The full RFP and more details on eligibility, selection criteria, as well as information about the Fund and upcoming calls, can be found at lacunafund.org. Questions about the RFP are welcome through 7 October 2020. The RFP closes on 6 November 2020.

• We are seeking applications to create, expand, or maintain datasets from organizations and partnerships with technical expertise in language data collection and labeling. Proposals should also demonstrate a strong understanding of the machine learning landscape and the needs of end users.
• Applicants must be headquartered in Africa or have a substantial partnership with an entity headquartered in Africa. Lacuna Fund encourages collaboration between organizations to assemble a competitive proposal.
• Proposals will be selected by a Technical Advisory Panel based on the Fund’s principles: transformative potential, quality, accessibility, equity, ethics, and a participatory approach.
• Lacuna Fund values a collaborative and locally driven approach to data creation, expansion, and maintenance. We recognize that the continued usefulness and maintenance of open data will thrive in a community that is collectively invested in that data. 
• While the Request for Proposals outlines some data needs identified by our Technical Advisory Panel, proposals are not restricted to these areas, and we welcome other ideas within the domain area that have a clearly articulated benefit.

Read more about Lacuna Fund’s open RFP in language data and apply on our website here. You can also sign up to receive future notifications of available funding.

Lacuna Fund is a funder collaborative between The Rockefeller Foundation, Google.org, and Canada’s International Development Research Centre, with an upcoming call for proposals on underserved languages also supported by the German development agency GIZ on behalf of the Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ). The Fund is governed by a multi-stakeholder steering committee composed of technical experts, thought leaders, local beneficiaries, and end users. Collectively, the Fund’s stakeholders are committed to creating and mobilizing labeled datasets that both solve urgent local problems and lead to a step change in machine learning’s potential worldwide.

 

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