Data collection for AI and research

Licensed, consented, locally sourced imagery, audio and text from Uganda, collected to a written specification.

Price: Worked out for your brief, in the calculator
Turnaround: Quoted per specification

Quoted against a written scope, and the work starts once payment is received. Or send the request straight away.

What this actually involves

Models trained on scraped western data perform badly on Ugandan inputs, and the organisations that know this are willing to pay for properly sourced local data. We collect to specification: photographs of specified subjects, speech recordings in named languages, labelled text. Every contributor signs a consent form that states exactly what the data will be used for, and we keep that consent record for the life of the licence. We do not sell anything we cannot show consent for.

What you receive

Data delivered to your schema, with a written collection protocol
A signed consent record for every contributor
Chain of custody from collection through delivery
Quality assurance pass with a documented rejection rate

Who commissions this

AI labs building models that need African-language and African-context data
Universities and research groups
Localisation and speech technology companies
Anyone who needs the licence position to be defensible

How it runs

1We agree the specification, the consent wording and the licence
2Researchers collect from contributors who each sign a consent form
3The data passes a quality check and is delivered to your schema, with the consent records

What you provide

A written specification: the subjects, languages, formats and volume you need
What the data will be used for, so every contributor can be told exactly that before they agree
Your schema and the quality checks you expect

Limits of this service

We deliver nothing we cannot show consent for
Data is used only for the purpose each contributor agreed to, and the consent record is kept for the life of the licence
Volume and timing depend on finding enough consenting contributors who fit the specification

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Tell us where to go and what to confirm.

Send the location and the questions. We will come back with a fixed price, a named researcher and a date.

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