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DIALOGUES Project Digital Technologies for Accessibility Training Workshop in Kitwe On January 19 and 20, 2026, the DIALOGUES Project held a Digital Technologies for Accessibility Training Workshop for lecturers at Kitwe College of Education. The workshop showed lecturers how… January 20, 2026 · 1 min read Three DataLab Papers at ICICT 2025 Three papers from the DataLab Research Group were published in the Proceedings of the 7th International Conference in Information and Communication Technologies (ICICT 2025), held at the Confucius… August 29, 2025 · 1 min read Elijah Chileshe and Dr Peter Chibuta Awarded Travel Grants to Present at MICCAI 2025 Two members of the Enterprise Medical Imaging project have been awarded travel grants to attend MICCAI 2025 in Daejeon, South Korea (September 23–27, 2025), where they will present papers at the… August 13, 2025 · 1 min read DataLab EIFL-JABS Diamond Open Access Project Training Workshops As part of the EIFL-funded Diamond Open Access Journals project, two training workshops were held in Chongwe, Zambia, in 2025: July 28, 2025 · 1 min read Elijah Chileshe Awarded a Travel Grant to Attend DSA 2025 Elijah Chileshe has been awarded a travel grant to attend the Data Science Africa 2025 Summer School and Workshop, held in Ibadan, Nigeria, from June 2 to 6, 2025. June 1, 2025 · 1 min read New Postgraduate Students Joining the DataLab Research Group in 2025 We are excited to have four (4) postgraduate students join the lab in 2025. All the new students will either be supervised or co-supervised by faculty staff associated with the lab. April 26, 2025 · 1 min read Our Research on Wikipedia Content Contribution in Zambia Featured at the Wikimedia Research Showcase! April 17, 2025 · 2 min read DataLab New Final Year Undergraduate Students Joining the DataLab Research Group in 2025 The DataLab Research Group welcomes the following final-year undergraduate students, who are carrying out their capstone research projects with the group in 2025: March 3, 2025 · 1 min read DataLab EIFL Grant to Strengthen Diamond Open Access Journals at the University of Zambia The University of Zambia has been awarded a $20,000 grant by EIFL (Electronic Information for Libraries) under its Supporting No-Fee Open Access Publishing in Africa programme. The project, Improved… November 18, 2024 · 1 min read DataLab Hosts the 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024) The 27th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2024) was held in Livingstone, Zambia, from November 4 to 6, 2024. The University of Zambia, through the DataLab Research… November 7, 2024 · 1 min read Paper on AI Systems in Low-Resource Settings Presented at AMAI 2024 Malaizyo Muzumala presented the paper Evaluating Perceived Workload, Usability and Usefulness of Artificial Intelligence Systems in Low-Resource Settings: Semi-Automated Classification and Detection… October 8, 2024 · 1 min read Two DataLab Papers Presented at SAICSIT 2024 Two papers by DataLab students were presented at the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists (SAICSIT 2024) in Gqeberha, South Africa… July 30, 2024 · 1 min read DataLab EMIZ Team Participating in Data Science Africa 2024 Workshop and Summer School Two members of the Enterprise Medical Imaging in Zambia team will be participating in the Data Science Africa (DSA) conference this year.  June 6, 2024 · 1 min read