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With growing application of machine learning (ML) technologies in healthcare, there have been calls for developing techniques to understand and mitigate biases these systems may exhibit. Fairness considerations in the development of ML-based solutions ...

News articles constitute a valuable resource for opinion mining, as they contain important perspectives related to the subject matter they cover. In this paper, we explore how aspect-based sentiment analysis might help in understanding the public ...

The studies which analyzed the impact of technology innovation on income inequalities have considered only one factor of change at a time. The results are overall inconclusive: technology innovation appears to either reduce or increase inequality,...

• We analyzed the effect of new technologies on income inequality in Sub-Saharan Africa countries.
• We use a technological innovation index that comprises multiple factors simultaneously.
• Using this broader index, and three different ...

The prevalence of High Performance Computing (HPC) in scientific research continues to grow, and with this growth, the importance of HPC education and training also increases. However, limited access to advanced research computing resources continues to ...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)'s National Integrated Cyberinfrastructure System (NICIS) plays a pivotal role in advancing two key initiatives that focus on developing cyberinfrastructure across the African continent: the ...

This ITiCSE Working Group (WG) has two goals: first, to increase awareness of computing education research in the African countries, and second, to create and strengthen connections between computing education researchers in African countries and those ...

There is a worrying lack of published work in international venues about computer science education (CSE) in the Global South, especially in Africa. Despite the increasing number of African institutions offering various computer science degree programs ...

A key question in e-participation is what roles public officials can play to harness the benefits of emerging technologies and practices, mitigate potential harms, and, ultimately, ensure more inclusive and effective public involvement in decision making. ...

• The study analyzed the synergistic effect of digital infrastructure and human capital on innovation.
• System generalized method of moments is employed on a sample of 28 African countries over the 2011–2019 period.
• Digital ...

While both theory and empirical evidence have established the critical role of digital infrastructure in promoting innovation, there needs to be more understanding of factors mediating this nexus, especially from the African context, which is ...

The literature has discussed the positive/negative effects of research collaboration (RC). However, no study looks at the effect of RC especially international research collaboration (IRC) on key developments in a research area. Using Main Path ...

While most discussions about Artificial Intelligence (AI) regulations focus on advanced economies, such as OECD countries [1,2], this series of articles systematically examines the AI regulation challenges in emerging economies of the Global South. In ...

Drought is an extreme weather event, affecting the ecological conditions of vegetation and agricultural productivity, poses challenges for millions of people in Africa, and its long-term prediction is definitely important. Accurate drought ...

• Proposes an advanced GAN forecasting model based on CNN-LSTM for agricultural drought.
• Investigates the impacts of climate change on spatial and temporal drought variation.
• Identifies multivariate remote sensing data over Africa ...

An emerging question for photovoltaic (PV) solar power development is how to ascertain the optimal choice from a finite set of available alternatives under numerous conflicting criteria as well as high levels of imprecise, vague, and uncertain ...

• A novel integrated MCDM approach for the development of solar energy is presented.
• Challenges to solar energy development are identified and evaluated.
• Strategies to overcome these challenges are provided.
• Sensitivity analysis ...

This panel will explore the practice, career trajectories and experiences of African HCI professionals with a view to increasing awareness about the study and practice of HCI among universities and corporate organizations in Africa. Recently, more ...

The meaningful application of Participatory Design (PD) in African communities requires a thoughtful reevaluation of its approaches. In efforts to adapt it to this different context, PD researchers and practitioners face several challenges, including ...

As generative AI applications such as ChatGPT, Midjourney, DALL·E, Bard, and others increase in ubiquity, concerns about the negative implications of these technologies are becoming more present in public discourse. However, little research has examined ...

This paper comprehensively explores the intersection of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), usable security, and privacy technologies within the context of the rapidly digitising African continent. Recognising the increasing digitalisation in Africa, we ...

Access to Assistive Technology (AT) in Africa is severely limited, with less than 25% of those who need AT have access to it. This paper examines three cases illustrating the journey of scaling AT innovations in African markets to enhance access. Our ...

The least developed countries (LDCs) must experience faster economic growth rates if they are to catch up to the industrialized nations. A key factor in advancing economic growth and development in the digital age are information and ...

• The relationship between economic growth and mobile telecommunications is analyzed for Tanzania.
• Short run and long run effects are analyzed for Tanzania for the period from 1994 to 2021.
• Bosting ICT investment can have a ...

This poster captures the initiatives of African community and public libraries in the early stages of COVID‐19. This is part of an ongoing research on the impact of the COVID‐19 and long‐term implications for African libraries. We conducted 11 ...