IRCAI and Zindi announce winning solutions of the AI for Equity Challenge in collaboration with AWS

LISBON, Portugal - July 15, 2025 - PRLog -- LISBON - The International Research Centre on Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI), an organization under the auspices of UNESCO, data science platform Zindi, and the Amazon Sustainability Data Initiative (ASDI) at Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS), with the support of the NAIXUS network of excellence, today announced the winners of the AI for Equity Challenge. The six-month global virtual contest supported researchers applying advanced cloud computing and artificial intelligence (AI) to create new solutions that address human health issues exacerbated by the climate crisis.

The challenge was divided into two rounds - the first round being a call for organisations to submit AI challenges they were working on at the nexus of climate action, gender, and health. The organisations selected in the first round were the Kuyesera AI Lab at the Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences, and the Sokoine University of Agriculture (SUA) in Tanzania.

In the second round, AI experts and engineers from all over the world were called on to compete on Zindi to build the best models they could to solve the challenges set by these two organisations. Over two months, 1300 AI builders from 90 countries put a combined 63,000 hours of effort towards building cutting edge AI models.

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