DIGITAL UMUGANDA

An  Artificial intelligence company specializing in language technology for African languages with an emphasis on voice based solutions. We are a social impact driven private company with a mission to reduce the digital divide gap in Africa.

 

 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

TEAM

Management

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.

Audace Niyonkuru

Founder & CEO

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.

Samuel Rutunda

CTO

Technical Team

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

UI/UX developer

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

Elvis Peace Ndahayo Rugero

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.

 

Celestin Niyindagiriye

Software Developer

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

Kleber Kabanda

Machine Learning 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.

 

Ally Nengo

Software Developer

Driven Full-Stack Engineer with 4+ years of experience building scalable web applications. Proven ability to deliver innovative solutions, as demonstrated by developing real-time chatbots using NLP, which reduced processing time by 40%. Skilled in Spring Boot, ReactJS, and Python. Eager to contribute to a team that values collaboration and continuous learning.

 

Celestin Niyindagiriye

Software Developer

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