Opportunities
Grants, fellowships, computing resources, and collaboration calls open to MbazaNLP community members. Updated weekly from community sources.
Computing Access
Google TPU Research Cloud
Google offers free TPU access to researchers working on open-source NLP projects. Academic and community applicants are eligible.
Learn more →AWS Research Credits
Amazon Web Services offers research credit grants for academic researchers and non-profit open-source projects. Eligible for GPU compute for model training and inference.
Apply for credits →Grants & Funding
Lacuna Fund
Funds the creation of labelled training data for machine learning in the Global South, with a focus on underrepresented languages including African languages.
Visit Lacuna Fund →Mozilla Technology Fund
Supports open-source projects and research that advance trustworthy AI and internet health, including low-resource language technology.
Learn more →AI4D Africa Grants
The Artificial Intelligence for Development Africa initiative funds NLP and AI research in African contexts, with grants for researchers and community organisations.
Visit AI4D →GIZ Digital Transformation
GIZ Rwanda's Digital Transformation Center supports digital public goods and open-source community infrastructure in Rwanda.
Learn more →Fellowships & Residencies
Masakhane Research Grants
Masakhane, the pan-African NLP research community, periodically offers grants and collaboration opportunities for African language NLP research.
Visit Masakhane →Google for Startups Africa
Google for Startups Africa offers equity-free funding, cloud credits, and mentorship to startups building AI tools in Africa.
Learn more →