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Data
Science Nigeria (DSN) has won the best poster award at the 21st
edition of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC' 20), the world's premier conference on the
interface of economics and computer science. The conference held virtually between July 13 and 17, 2020
and was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery, New York, United
States.
Since
1999, the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom) has
sponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, empirics,
and applications at the interface of economics and computation. The 21st ACM
Conference featured invited speakers, posters, workshops, and tutorials.
This
year, Data Science Nigeria presented its award-winning poster, "Shared
trust to End Poverty and Promote Financial Inclusion", alongside leading institutions like Stanford
University, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Imperial College London
and many institutions in Africa.
The poster explores how real-time crowdsourcing of financial fraud data can
proactively prevent fraud based on the established theories of social trust
path design, network-enabled social regularization and truthful mechanisms.
Data Science
Nigeria has established itself
as a world-class Artificial Intelligence community with proven track record
in the application of cutting-edge solution-oriented Artificial Intelligence,
outstanding research excellence,
development of business
use cases, consulting services
delivery, capacity building and AI for good solutions.
In 2019, Data
Science Nigeria won the Africa's highest Artificial Intelligence community
impact award (Wangai Maathai Impact Award) and the second-best academic poster
at the Deep Learning Indaba held in Kenya.
In
his speech, DSN's convener, Bayo Adekanmbi said, "our commitment to
world-class learning is beginning to manifest. We are humbled to have built an
end-to-end data science learning ecosystem that delivers world-class
learning across all age grades (from primary school to C-level
executives) using most diverse delivery channels (face to face, online content,
free books, offline learning content, project-based immersion, hackathon,
internship, mentorship, research partnerships etc.) and reaching hundreds of
thousands of beneficiaries."
Data Science Nigeria has distinguished itself with its transformational initiatives including the 1st Artificial Intelligence book for elementary schools in Africa, 1st Inter-campus Machine Learning competition involving over 10,000 students from 95 universities and polytechnics, dedicated Artificial Intelligence Community Hub, AI Summer Schools for Kids, AI Masterclass sessions for top business executives in Nigeria, industry-oriented hackathons, learning-based Kaggle competitions, development of Nigeria-centric Machine Learning/Deep learning curriculum, data collection applications, and AI+ Clubs in schools. Visit bit.ly/Ec_posters
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