DIGITAL UMUGANDA

Digital Umuganda is an  AI and open data company with a mission to enable access to information in local African languages. Digital Umuganda creates open source datasets, models and tools that make it possible for NLP including large language models to work for marginalized communities that speak under resourced languages.

 

Our work is possible through the support of our Partners

 PROJECTS

Kinyarwanda Datasets

Digital Umuganda’s success in collecting Kinyarwanda Voice and text datasets is evident through Mozilla Common Voice’s platform With 2000 hours collected & curated. The volume of data in Kinyarwanda is second only to English, the largest open voice dataset in the world. This was achieved by building productive partnerships with local communities on the ground.

MBAZA A.I CHATBOT

Mbaza AI Chatbot is a chatbot that enables citizens to access information & guidance while using the local language and also provides feedback to the relevant authorities including key concerns of the population as well tracking probable contamination cases. The chatbot can be accessed through the national health hotline  short code *114# and has more than 2.2 million unique users nationwide.

Projects

Languages digitized

Hours recorded

Text collected/ annotated

TEAM

Audace NIYONKURU

Audace NIYONKURU

Founder & CEO

Audace is the founder and C.E.O of Digital Umuganda. He is currently spearheading the vision of the company. He has an ambitious goal of using AI backed voice interaction technologies  to bridge  the digital divide gap in Africa. To reach that goal he is overseeing the process of having the first open voice data-set in Kinyarwanda  as one of the under represented language.

Samuel RUTUNDA

Samuel RUTUNDA

CTO

Samuel is the CTO of Digital Umuganda. Samuel is currently in charge of the Digital Umuganda infrastructure. Samuel interest lies in understanding the world around him, and using technology to improve the quality of life.  specific interest include NLP and Programming automation.

Saad BYIRINGIRO

Saad BYIRINGIRO

UI/UX Developer

A passionate product designer who gets excited about complex problems and tight collaboration. I also enjoy creating user-centric, delightful, and human experiences.

Elvis Peace Ndahayo RUGERO

Elvis Peace Ndahayo RUGERO

Software Developer

A full-stack software developer who believes that the future is going to be better when we embrace technological solutions.

Celestin NIYINDAGIRIYE

Celestin NIYINDAGIRIYE

Software Developer

Driven Full-Stack Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable web applications. Proven ability to deliver innovative solutions. Eager to contribute to a team that values collaboration and continuous learning.

Kleber KABANDA

Kleber KABANDA

Machine Learning Engineer

Interested in leveraging large deep-learning models to train NLP models for low-resource African languages.

Ally NENGO

Ally NENGO

Software Engineer

Ally is passionate about positive changes in the community, he vehemently believes that one of the things that can make this world a better place we can count in the use of technology moderately and smartly, without forgetting to spend some valuable moments with the loved one, he always preach that its a shared responsibility.