[kictanet] Cheap AI coding labour?

Wainaina Mungai wainaina at wainainamungai.com
Mon Nov 12 13:52:12 EAT 2018


Some developers are raising concerns privately that great initiatives such
as Zindi are "cheaply buying AI code" from Africa
https://zindi.africa/faq/data_scientists

According to them, "Zindi runs high-value expertise programming
competitions/ hackathons in Kenya and Nigeria... and demands code in
exchange for low pay prizes. It is unfairly low-cost labour for them."

See attached. Are their concerns valid?
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