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Our submission to IST-Africa 2022, titled "Enterprise Medical Imaging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities" has been accepted and will be presented during the upcoming IST-Africa 2022 conference. We have collaborated with colleagues from the University Teaching Hospitals (UTHs)'s Adult Hospital in order to explore the potential of using Enterprise Medical Imaging to address some of the grand challenges affecting radiological diagnosis.

We are amongst the 12 successful applicants that have been awarded a "Seed Money" grant, amounting to ZMW 25,000.00, by the Directorate of Research and Graduate Studies (DRGS) at The University of Zambia (UNZA). We have partnered with Radiologists at The University Teaching Hospitals (UTHs) to explore how Enterprise Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence (AI) can be leveraged to streamline medical imaging workflows.

Lighton gave a talk at the 2021 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL 2021) conference that was hosted by the School of Information Sciences of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Our submission to JCDL 2021, titled "Improved Discoverability of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies" has been accepted and will be presented during the upcoming JCDL 2021 conference. 

Lighton gave an invited talk at the Deep Learning Indaba X - Zambia 2021 that was held virtually, due to the Global Pandemic The event was on May 25, 2021. The Deep Learning Indaba (DLI) is an organisation whose mission is to Strengthen Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Africa.