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Unido AfricaRice App Builder Challenge

Helping Ghana
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meganomaly
Zindi
Challenge Update
Platform · 13 Feb 2026, 16:34 · 10

Hi everyone 👋

We have made the top models from the UNIDO AfricaRice Quality Assessment Challenge available, so you can build and integrate them into your app solutions. This is a great time to:

  • Finalise your on-device model integration
  • Test offline inference performance
  • Validate that all required outputs and classifications are correctly displayed
  • Strengthen your demo walkthrough transcript

Leaderboard evaluation will open next week.

We’ll make a separate announcement as soon as submissions can be submitted and scored.

Thanks for your patience and the strong work so far - we’re excited to see your finished app builds!

If you have any questions, please post them below.

Good luck 🚀

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crossentropy
Federal university of Technology, Akure

Please how can we access the models?

13 Feb 2026, 17:02
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meganomaly
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crossentropy
Federal university of Technology, Akure

Thank You

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crossentropy
Federal university of Technology, Akure

Might be missing something but it currently states that this competition starts in 5 days and there are no accessible files in the data section. I guess we'll just have to wait

Please the model still is not available in the data section of the challenge on submission guidelines

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meganomaly
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The link is in the data section. Adding it here too - https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1h6TKFuSGpa-kdIoFdFyOyAT8-s6vcBMo

Hello. You will also postpone the end date of the competition by 5 days?

13 Feb 2026, 18:44
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meganomaly
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Thanks for bringing this up! We will look at an extension and get back to you ASAP!

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EmmanuelKipngetich

Hi @meganomaly, is the deadline still being pushed by 5 days?

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meganomaly
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Hi @EmmanuelKipngetich We did extend the challenge slightly but unfortunately we were unable to extend further.