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DataLab New Final Year Undergraduate Students Joining the DataLab Research Group in 2023 The DataLab Research Group is pleased to welcome four teams of final-year Bachelor of Information and Communication Technologies with Education students who will carry out their capstone research… February 20, 2023 · 1 min read DataLab 2022 in Review: Major Accomplishments The year 2022 was an extremely difficult period as we were transitioning from a two-year-long period marred by COVID-19 restrictions. That being said, we have some success stories. January 12, 2023 · 2 min read Google Research Award to Explore Use of Artificial Intelligence and Enterprise Medical Imaging for Effective Radiological Workflows in Zambia Google Research has awarded us a very generous research grant, as part of their Award for Inclusion Research (AIR) Program [1]. The grant has been awarded to support our research project titled… January 7, 2023 · 2 min read DataLab Lighton Phiri Appointed Member of the Board of Directors for The Networked Digital Libraries of Theses and Dissertations Lighton Phiri has been appointed to serve a two (2) year term, from January 2022 until December 2023, as a member of the Board of Directors [1] for Networked Digital Library Theses and Dissertations… June 2, 2022 · 1 min read Conference Presentation at IST-Africa 2022: Enterprise Medical Imaging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities Ernest gave a talk at the 2022 IST-Africa (IST-Africa 2022) conference that was held virtually between May 16–20, 2022. May 30, 2022 · 1 min read New Final Year Undergraduate Students Joining the DataLab Lab in 2022 We have a total of 16 final-year undergraduate students working on projects related to what we do as a research group. All the new students are supervised by faculty staff associated with the lab. May 27, 2022 · 1 min read Conference Presentation at CSEDU 2022: Factors Influencing Co-Creation of Open Educational Resources Using Learning Object Repositories Lighton gave a talk at the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2022) conference that was held virtually between April 22–24, 2022, due to the effects of the global… April 26, 2022 · 1 min read DataLab "Enterprise Medical Imaging in the Global South: Challenges and Opportunities" Accepted to IST-Africa 2022 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… March 14, 2022 · 1 min read DataLab "Factors Influencing Co-Creation of Open Education Resources Using Learning Object Repositories" Accepted to CSEDU 2022 Our submission to the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education (CSEDU 2022), titled "Factors Influencing Co-Creation of Open Education Resources Using Learning Object… March 14, 2022 · 1 min read Congratulations to Kadeyo Kuyela for Successfully Defending His MLIS Dissertation Please join us in congratulating Kadeyo Kuyela, who has successfully defended his Master of Library and Information Science dissertation. Kadeyo was supervised by Dr Christine Kanyengo and Dr Lighton… February 18, 2022 · 1 min read Seed Money Grant Award for Streamlined Medical Imaging Workflows in Zambia Using Enterprise Medical Imaging and Artificial Intelligence 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… November 30, 2021 · 1 min read Conference Presentation at JCDL 2021: Improved Discoverability of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies 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… September 28, 2021 · 1 min read DataLab "Improved Discoverability of Digital Objects in Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies" Accepted to JCDL 2021 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… May 29, 2021 · 1 min read