New research with @UNICEFinnovate : adapting speech recognition for adolescent health communication in Twi, Dagbani & Ewe. 92% of community testers would recommend KasaHealth -- our voice-first health app (powered by @KhayaAI models) Paper link in comments

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#NostalgicPost: 12 years ago, I graced the Oslo Freedom Forum @OsloFF stage in Norway alongside @Kasparov63 and spoke about Africa’s Tech Frontier. Back then, the tech ecosystem looked very different. There were no endless funding announcements. No unicorn obsession. No LinkedIn victory laps about ARR. What we had were communities. In Accra, places like @BusyInternetPOC and @MESTAfrica became meeting points for builders. @BloggingGhana helped create a generation that documented Ghana’s digital culture in real time. @Abocco and the @BarCampGhana team brought developers, founders, students and curious people into the same rooms. @MobileWebGhana, @iSpaceGh and developer communities kept expanding that circle. In Lagos 🇳🇬, Yaba was becoming more than a neighbourhood. @Cc_HUB was pulling people together. Hackathons, GDGs and developer meetups were everywhere. @TechCabal and later @TechpointAfrica helped tell the story of the ecosystem while it was still being built. @Andela arrived and suddenly African developer talent was part of a much bigger global conversation. Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪had already shown what was possible. M-Pesa changed how the world thought about mobile money. @Ushahidi proved African engineers could build technology the world would adopt. @iHub became one of the beating hearts of Silicon Savannah. People like Ory Okolloh @kenyanpundit, Juliana Rotich @afromusing, Erik Hersman @whiteafrican and David Kobia @dkobia weren’t waiting for permission to build. Neither were the teams behind @brcknet , @AkiraChix and dozens of projects most people outside the ecosystem never heard about. Kampala had its own energy. @HiveColab. @OutboxHub. Early developer communities. People like Teddy Ruge @tmsruge , Maureen Agena @maureenagena and Solomon King @solomonking. @FundiBots. @girl_geeks. @WinSenga. Small communities, ambitious people, very little money. That was the pattern across the continent. Before the funding rounds, there were communities. Before the unicorns, there were hackers. Before the headlines, there were bloggers telling our own story. People sometimes look at Africa’s current tech ecosystem and start the story with @Flutterwave, @Andela, @WavePayments , @Paystack or billion-dollar valuations. But ecosystems don’t suddenly appear when venture capital arrives. Someone hosted the meetup. Someone convinced 40 developers to spend Saturday at a hackathon. Someone opened the hub. Someone paid for the internet. Someone wrote the first blog post. Someone introduced two founders who eventually built something together. That invisible infrastructure mattered. And now we are entering another frontier. AI - Artificial Intelligence! The opportunities are much bigger than simply putting a chatbot on an African product. African-language models being built by @KhayaAI training on African knowledge rather than treating Africa as an edge case. Local datasets. Voice interfaces that actually understand how we speak. AI agents for small businesses. Healthcare diagnostics. Agricultural intelligence. Education tools designed around Robotics. Developer tools. The interesting part is that this moment feels strangely familiar. The technology has changed but the energy hasn’t. Just like 12 years ago, some of the most important work is probably happening in rooms nobody is paying attention to yet. @cursor_ai, @Replit & @ClaudeAI developer meetups happening in Accra, Nairobi, Lagos, Addis, or Kampala. And somewhere in one of those rooms, the next generation of African AI companies is probably being built right now by people most of the world hasn’t noticed yet. We’ve seen this movie before. This time, the frontier is AI. ⁉️What AI product are you building?

PART 6: I was on Kantanka TV this morning to talk about the uniqueness of Ai and the basics @KhayaAI #ai #aiagents #aisystems