Media Source: The Monitor (Uganda)
Date: 15 April 2025
Students from Aga Khan High School and Kampala International School Uganda (KISU) are developing artificial intelligence (AI) applications to tackle healthcare and road safety challenges in Uganda, with support from global tech instructors. The 24 students, aged between 14 and 18, have been undergoing a two-week intensive AI
Students from Aga Khan High School and Kampala International School Uganda (KISU) are developing artificial intelligence (AI) applications to tackle healthcare and road safety challenges in Uganda, with support from global tech instructors. The 24 students, aged between 14 and 18, have been undergoing a two-week intensive AI training led by Michael Bryan, an instructor from Oxford University, and Varsha Sandadi, a recent graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Shaun Munene from Aga Khan High School, helped create the app to reduce distracted driving. His team trained their AI model on over 7,600 images showing various driver postures, such as using phones or drinking coffee, to predict unsafe behaviour and issue real-time alerts.