Caribbean Voices AI Hackathon by UWI AI Innovation Centre
and 17 other countries
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Cayman Islands
- Curaçao
- Dominica
- Grenada
- Guyana
- Jamaica
- Montserrat
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Suriname
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Turks and Caicos Islands
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We would like to share our learnings publicly and are writing to clarify what we are permitted to publish, given the competition rules around data ownership and code assignment.
Specifically, we would like to know whether we may:
1. Publish a technical blog post describing our general methodology (LoRA fine-tuning approach, preprocessing decisions, lessons learned) without sharing proprietary code or model weights
2. Share our WER performance metrics when discussing the competition publicly
3. Present our approach at meetups or in academic contexts, with appropriate acknowledgement of the competition, UWI AI Innovation Centre, and data providers
We want to ensure we respect the intellectual property terms while contributing to the broader conversation around Caribbean speech recognition. We would of course provide full attribution to the hackathon, UWI, and any other parties you specify.
Please let us know what is permissible and if there are any specific acknowledgement requirements we should follow.
Hi there.. congratulations 🎊 everyone that took part in this lovely hackathon.
About publishing, a general response would be, take note of the terms and conditions accepted when joining a competition, these differ from one competition to another, also check out the info pages of each.
For this one in particular, Please feel free to share the Zindi Ai and Ml gospel, when you present your general methodology at meetups or in academic contexts, though ensure not to distribute dataset nor code out of the platform yet. I also humbly request you to encourage more people join our community and take part in hackathons. We need more active people like you and thank you.
Dont forget to appropriately acknowledge UWI AI Innovation Centre, and all sponsors... wherever applicable, just as you suggested. Keep the Zindi spirit of community, learning, and social impact
Thanks Jagwara. This is well noted. We will ensure more people learn about Zindi. This is a fantastic platform to work on truly impactful issues while having fun and gaining skills.