Bk Scilab

Upcoming Events

Data for Health in Africa Meeting & 5th DS-I Africa Consortium Meeting

23 - 29 August 2025

THE DS-I Africa Ideathon

6th Virtual Networking Exchange

Sustainable Partnerships for Research

Consortium

About Us

To accomplish this, the DS-I Africa Initiative aims to contribute to the development of the necessary expertise among African scientists, and to establish networks of African investigators.

The vision of DS-I Africa is to create and support a robust pan-continental network of data scientists and technologies that will be equipped to apply advanced data science skills to transform health.

Funders

DS-I Africa is an NIH Common Fund Initiative

Contributing Institutes, Centres and Offices

Program Goals

To advance Data Science and related innovations in Africa to create an ecosystem that can begin to provide local solutions to countries' most immediate public health problems through advances in research.

Create a pan continental network with broad academic, public, private and industry partnerships.
Enhance Data Science capacity through training toward developing a new generation of interdisciplinary African Data Scientists.
Develop new data collection and analytic systems, applications, and tools with attention to usages that are population-relevant, affordable, acceptable, and scalable.
Advances in policy surrounding ethical issues.
Facilitate resource access to the global scientific community.

Our Projects

On this page you will find a list of consortium projects. The consortium consists of a data science platform and coordinating center, seven research hubs, seven data science research training programs and four projects focused on studying the ethical, legal and social implications of data science research.