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The popularity of radio combined with high penetration of mobile phones | The popularity of radio in rural areas, combined with high penetration of mobile phones, enables African citizens to contribute their opinions to radio discussions via SMS. International agencies such as UNICEF could use this data to design and monitor development initiatives. Cambridge organisation Africa's Voices has datasets of SMS messages collected from different African countries, in local languages, with sociodemographical information, addressing health and human rights issues. Your task is to create a multi-lingual browser that analyses and presents these themes, for example as a visualisation of LDA topic maps. The goal is to create a tool that would help international teams hold policy discussions that relate and recognise ideas relating to important issues (keeping in mind that some important concepts in a particular society might have no exact translation). | ||
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The popularity of radio in rural areas, combined with high penetration of mobile phones, enables African citizens to contribute their opinions to radio discussions via SMS. International agencies such as UNICEF could use this data to design and monitor development initiatives. Cambridge organisation Africa's Voices has datasets of SMS messages collected from different African countries, in local languages, with sociodemographical information, addressing health and human rights issues. Your task is to create a multi-lingual browser that analyses and presents these themes, for example as a visualisation of LDA topic maps. The goal is to create a tool that would help international teams hold policy discussions that relate and recognise ideas relating to important issues (keeping in mind that some important concepts in a particular society might have no exact translation).
