Venu: It’s great to be here, Spiffy! IRRI is dedicated to abolishing poverty and hunger among people and populations that depend on rice-based agri-food systems. Through our work and partnerships, we aim to improve the health and welfare of rice farmers and consumers, promote environmental sustainability in a world challenged by climate change, and support the empowerment of women and youth in the rice industry. Our unit manages the International Rice Genebank (IRG), which conserves the world’s largest collection of rice genetic diversity.
Dec 30, 2024
Posted by: Sujit Kunte
Canada,
Danna Ingleton,
SDG 10,
SDG 13,
SDG 16,
SDG 3,
SDG 4,
SDG 5,
SDG 6,
SDG 8
Danna: Thanks for having me, Spiffy. At HURIDOCS, we help people collect, process, and communicate important information about human rights, climate change, and more. We develop our own open-source software, enabling activists and change-makers to securely store their data and ensure it is usefully organized for advocacy or court cases. We even use machine learning to help them find important information faster! Our tool is called Uwazi, which means “openness” in Swahili, and we have more than 300 partners around the world.
Rose: Thanks for having me, Spiffy. Imagine a world where everyone, even in the most remote villages, can get the right diagnosis. That’s what we’re working on! Right now, many people in Sub-Saharan Africa get very sick from diseases like malaria, tuberculosis, and cervical cancer. It’s hard for them to get the right and timely diagnosis because there aren’t enough doctors to examine the samples under a microscope. We’re using artificial intelligence (AI) to help! We’re training computers to recognize the tiny parasites by showing them many pictures of these parasites. Once the computer learns to recognize these patterns, it can help doctors diagnose diseases more quickly and accurately. This will help people in rural areas get the right treatment faster and feel better.
