Funding: Media dev org (2)
Malawi's first Chichewa AI database — a sovereign digital repository of licensed Chichewa audio built to reduce reliance on foreign training datasets and to be turned into classroom and newsroom tools. For journalists it provides standardised linguistic resources and underpins AI-driven translation, subtitling and voice technologies for Malawi's languages.
Regional media-freedom association running an AI Journalism Innovation Fellowship for Southern Africa ('Innovation and Integrity') with DW Akademie's Dialogue Fund, supporting journalists and newsrooms to develop AI solutions for public-service journalism. MISA chapters also urge newsrooms to adopt AI for efficiency while cautioning broadcasters that AI must enhance production quality, not replace human judgement…