Our Achievements

  • Listed in the IRCAI/UNESCO Top 100 AI products in 2021 – with 2 products listed for solving sustainable development goals
  • The first dedicated AI Start-up Incubation Lab in Nigeria
  • Over 500,000 learners have benefited from the DSN’s free online and offline training sessions in Artificial intelligence, Data Science and digital skill-related classes.
  • 60 physical learning communities in cities and on campuses.
  • Online learners’ network in 49 countries across the world!
  • First Artificial Intelligence book for kids in Africa.
  • Over 13 academic papers published and accepted at peer-reviewed international conferences including NEURIPS, ICML and ICLR
  • Winner of the best academic poster at the 21st edition of the ACM Conference on Economics and Computation (EC’ 20)
  • First runner up poster award at the Deep Indaba in 2019
  • Winner of Africa’s foremost and prestigious Wangari Maathai Impact Award.
  • The only African finalist at the XPrize Algorithm for COVID prediction competition
  • 1,000,000+ direct download of our Artificial Intelligence for Starter free ebook to stimulate interest in Artificial Intelligence through use cases and inspirational contribution from leading global AI experts including Prof Yoshua Bengio, Professor Emeritus Thomas G. Dietterich and Prof. dr. M. (Max) Welling
  • 10,212 participated in the 1er ever Intercampus Machine Learning competition
  • 12,234 online participants in Data Science courses – from registration to at least one class