Themed Challenges to Solve Data Scarcity in Africa: A Proposition for Increasing Local Data Collection and Integration

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00925v1
• Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 11:42:00 GMT
• Title: Themed Challenges to Solve Data Scarcity in Africa: A Proposition for Increasing Local Data Collection and Integration
• Authors: Mubaraq Yakubu, Udunna Anazodo, Maruf Adewole, Theodore Barfoot, Tiarna Lee, Tom Vercauteren, Jonathan Shapey, Andrew King, Alexander Hammers,
• Abstract summary: This paper proposes a framework aimed at addressing data scarcity in African healthcare.<n>The framework presents a comprehensive strategy to encourage healthcare providers across the continent to create, curate, and share locally sourced medical imaging datasets.
• Score: 36.38899377085541
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In Africa, the scarcity of computational resources and medical datasets remains a major hurdle to the development and deployment of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in clinical settings, further contributing to global bias. These limitations hinder the full realization of AI's potential and present serious challenges to advancing healthcare across the region. This paper proposes a framework aimed at addressing data scarcity in African healthcare. The framework presents a comprehensive strategy to encourage healthcare providers across the continent to create, curate, and share locally sourced medical imaging datasets. By organizing themed challenges that promote participation, accurate and relevant datasets can be generated within the African healthcare community. This approach seeks to overcome existing dataset limitations, paving the way for a more inclusive and impactful AI ecosystem that is specifically tailored to Africa's healthcare needs.

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