Crowdsourcing Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Findings from a Machine Learning Contest
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Keywords
crowdsourcing; innovation; data science; artificial intelligence; Africa;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O31 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Innovation and Invention: Processes and Incentives
- O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
- O36 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Open Innovation
- O55 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Africa
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BIG-2021-07-26 (Big Data)
- NEP-CMP-2021-07-26 (Computational Economics)
- NEP-ENT-2021-07-26 (Entrepreneurship)
- NEP-INO-2021-07-26 (Innovation)
- NEP-PAY-2021-07-26 (Payment Systems and Financial Technology)
- NEP-TID-2021-07-26 (Technology and Industrial Dynamics)
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