Data Science Nigeria Wins the Best Poster Award at the Global EC20 Conference

Sunday, August 09, 2020 / 06:00PM / Data Science Nigeria / Header Image Credit: Data Science Nigeria

DataScience Nigeria (DSN) has won the best poster award at the 21^stedition of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC' 20), the world's premier conference on theinterface of economics and computer science. The conference held virtually between July 13 and 17, 2020and was organised by the Association for Computing Machinery, New York, UnitedStates.

Since1999, the ACM Special Interest Group on Economics and Computation (SIGecom) hassponsored the leading scientific conference on advances in theory, empirics,and applications at the interface of economics and computation. The 21st ACMConference featured invited speakers, posters, workshops, and tutorials.

Thisyear, Data Science Nigeria presented its award-winning poster, "Sharedtrust to End Poverty and Promote Financial Inclusion", alongside leading institutions like StanfordUniversity, Harvard University, University of Oxford, Imperial College Londonand many institutions in Africa.The poster explores how real-time crowdsourcing of financial fraud data canproactively prevent fraud based on the established theories of social trustpath design, network-enabled social regularization and truthful mechanisms.

Data ScienceNigeria has established itselfas a world-class Artificial Intelligence community with proven track recordin the application of cutting-edge solution-oriented Artificial Intelligence,outstanding research excellence,development of businessuse cases, consulting servicesdelivery, capacity building and AI for good solutions.

In 2019, DataScience Nigeria won the Africa's highest Artificial Intelligence communityimpact award (Wangai Maathai Impact Award) and the second-best academic posterat the Deep Learning Indaba held in Kenya.

Inhis speech, DSN's convener, Bayo Adekanmbi said, "our commitment toworld-class learning is beginning to manifest. We are humbled to have built anend-to-end data science learning ecosystem that delivers world-classlearning across all age grades (from primary school to C-levelexecutives) using most diverse delivery channels (face to face, online content,free books, offline learning content, project-based immersion, hackathon,internship, mentorship, research partnerships etc.) and reaching hundreds ofthousands of beneficiaries."

Data Science Nigeria has distinguisheditself with its transformational initiatives including the 1st ArtificialIntelligence book for elementary schools in Africa, 1^st Inter-campusMachine Learning competition involving over 10,000 students from 95universities and polytechnics, dedicated Artificial Intelligence Community Hub,AI Summer Schools for Kids, AI Masterclass sessions for top business executivesin Nigeria, industry-oriented hackathons, learning-based Kaggle competitions,development of Nigeria-centric Machine Learning/Deep learning curriculum, datacollection applications, and AI+ Clubs in schools. Visit bit.ly/Ec_posters