BurkimbIA

Association / Agency

burkimbia-landing.fly.devOuagadougou, Burkina Faso
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About

Who we are: Burkimbia is a non-profit association focused on AI and NLP for African languages. We build open-source datasets, models, and tools to support under-represented languages.

  • Hugging Face collections: link

  • Website: link

Our unique contribution:

  • Expertise in African languages & low-resource NLP.

  • Experience creating and maintaining open-source language models.

  • Strong community ties in Africa for data collection, testing, and co-creation.

  • Commitment to ethical and responsible AI aligned with EU standards.

What we are looking for:
We would like to partner as an African beneficiary in the consortium, focusing on multilingual NLP and AI tools tailored for local contexts (health, education, public services).

Areas of activity

Digital

Artificial IntelligenceBig data & analyticsSoftware Technologies

Digital Innovation Hubs

DIH - Artificial IntelligenceDIH - Data infrastructures & processing

Horizon Europe Partnerships

Artificial Intelligence, Data & Robotics

Representatives

Wendyam Josias KABORE

Research director

BurkimbIA