Lecturer and Researcher at The University of Zambia
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Joined August 2009
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Lighton Phiri retweeted
Episode 3 of our podcast is live 🔥
Have you tuned into episode 3 of the @VamboAI in Africa podcast with Dr @lightonphiri?
This is not a discussion to miss especially if you are interested in Academia and use cases built by Universities in Africa 🌍
Tune in: youtu.be/B6O4Rq4EaTk?feature…
🚨New Episode: Vambo AI in Africa Podcast 🌍
We’re excited to share Episode 3 of the @VamboAI Podcast Series:
🎙️ A discussion on AI & Academia in Zambia 🇿🇲 with Dr @lightonphiri
🔗 Listen now: youtu.be/B6O4Rq4EaTk?feature…
#ai #academia #vamboai #africa #technology #zambia
Prof. Wallace Chigona giving talk on "Why do #PhD Students Drop Out" #saicsit2024 #saicsit – at Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Lighton Phiri retweeted
We are extremely grateful to DSA for awarding us the African AI Research Award 2022. The funding has made it possible to demonstrate how AI can be leveraged to address the many challenges associated with radiological workflows in public health facilities in Zambia - @lightonphiri
Lighton Phiri retweeted
The Data Science Africa (DSA) 2024 Nyeri Summer School and Workshop will be hosted at the Dedan Kimathi University of Technology, Main Campus, Nyeri, from the 3rd to 7th of June 2024. @dsa_org
#AIforGood #EdgeML #DedanKimathiUniversity #AIAcademy
Lighton Phiri retweeted
📣The Call for Papers for #ETD2024 is now open!
💡Hosted by @UnzaOfficial HEA 🇿🇲@ZambiaRen, this year's topic is "ETD Visibility at a 📷 Scale"🌎
📩We invite submissions on #theses #dissertations & #OpenScience #OpenAccess #PIDs #ResearchData and more!
ℹ️etd2024.unza.zm/
ALT Flyer of the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024) Call for Papers
Lighton Phiri retweeted
#ETD2022 @lightonphiri (University of Zambia) presents a study of @NDLTD Union Catalog to evaluate ETD #metadata standard compliance in institutional #repositories and understand causes for poor metadata
Lighton Phiri retweeted
Lighton Phiri speaks about issues with appropriate subject metadata in both local and international repositories #JCDL2021 @lightonphiri
Very insightful tutorial---earlier this morning (GMT+2)---by @HathiTrust, on "HTRC Extracted Features 2.0 Dataset" #jcdl #jcdl2021 #jcdl21
You know you are attending a #computerscience centric conference when you are sent instructions to upload a pre-recorded presentation via #FTP :) Goodness! I last used this protocol almost a decade ago! #jcdl2021 #jcdl
Lighton Phiri retweeted
Professor Mamokgethi Phakeng @UCT_VC will host the virtual VC Inaugural Lecture by Professor Hussein Suleman on Wednesday, 30 September 2020 at 18:00 SAST. #UCTVCInauguralLecture
Watch the live stream on @UCT_news
Lighton Phiri retweeted
(2/2) applications centred on ideas that revolve around proposing and evaluating solutions to problems of computer science and information systems that emerge in the African context.
For more details: sit.uct.ac.za/sit/research/h…
youtu.be/ue6VfVffwdo
Knox Kamusweke: According to 2018 #FIC trends report, 80% of suspicious transactions attributed to #Banks in #Zambia
Lighton Phiri retweeted
@ICTeSSH 2020 moves online due to the ongoing global pandemic. FREE TO ATTEND thanks to our great sponsors: @ElsevierConnect, @ODISSEI_nl, @DSDimensions, @MDPIOpenAccess. June 29 - July 01. Great speakers, attractive topic, register at
ictessh.uns.ac.rs/register
#SSH
Back in #Zambia after an intensive and stimulating #afirm2020 summer school. A million thank yous to the organisers and instructors [...]
Baskar (@UnderdogGeek) reminding us of the "state of #neural #IR": there is clearly a growing trend and popularity in the field [...] #AFIRM2020
