“The Ishango fellows have made a strong contribution to our project, enabling us to accelerate progress. It has been a pleasure to work with Winifred and Stephen. They are talented, enthusiastic and well-supported by the Ishango organisation.”

“The work done by the Ishango.ai fellows throughout the program led to useful insights for our company. Having now seen it first-hand, there’s no doubt that Africa has excellent and untapped Data Science talent, capable of delivering real business value.”

“It’s been a great success, It’s added value. The students proved they were extremely skilful. They were really capable of pursuing data science projects with limited supervision. And there were no communication or time difference issues. They really helped our team.”

“The value we are hoping to get is in their in-process work on a cutting-edge neural network implementation in Python. While the final product isn't deliverable yet, they've made visible steps toward success, and in the modelling phase, they've done faster than I expected.”

"We have gained valuable experience in hosting fellows, and this has opened up the possibility of hosting more fellows and also onboarding fellows as employees." This is in line with our company culture, as we encourage people from different backgrounds/perspectives to come together and solve difficult problems."

Hosting an Ishango.ai Fellow has been an incredible asset to our team. Victoire’s work ethic, positive attitude, flexibility, and commitment have been commendable. She has been an integral part of the analytics team at Simprints, extracting insights from complex data that have supported key decisions.

The Ishango team has been valuable in expanding our capacity to develop our hydropower product. Our internal data science team has been heavily focused on "productizing" the existing machine learning pipelines, so it has fallen to the Ishango team to analyse additional data and build new models. We are very pleased with the quality and character of the Ishango team. They are talented, hardworking, and willing to learn.