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About AI4D Africa

AI4D Africa is a 3-year project, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida); it aims to meet the growing demand of demand for research and development in responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in the continent. Specifically, the project is supporting selected scholars to undertake and successfully complete PhD research in AI and ML in African universities; and early career academics (ECA) to strengthen their research and development capacities in the two areas. Special consideration is given to research projects on responsible AI innovation for sustainable development, gender equity, equitable regional distribution in low-income countries.

Scholarship Categories

The AI4D scholarships has been designed to target the following three categories of beneficiaries;

Category 1 -Registered PhD students

Invitation will target candidates who are already registered for PhD, have finished course work as well as research proposals. This will be open to all universities offering PhD in AI (or any of its derivatives). Eight in-country scholarships (4 female and 4 male) will be given for a period of two years. Selection will be based purely on the quality of the candidates and proposals. This call will be done twice, 4 admitted in Year 1 (Cohort 1) and 4 admitted in year 2 (Cohort 2).

Category 3 - Early career academics

Under the ECA scholarship, 8 Early Career Academics will be supported. This will mainly target those ECA who have capacity to supervise PhD and MSc students.

Category 4 - Post-doctoral researchers

It is assumed that there may be challenge getting suitable female ECA. Therefore, the programme will also support 4 post-doctoral positions for female candidates and those from disadvantaged countries to build capacities for AI research and training in their universities. The program will support each successful post-doctoral candidate with 4 MSc positions.

If you are interested in applying to a category of scholarship you wish to pursue above please visit the scholarships webpage

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