"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."

"Having two smart and dedicated Ishango.ai fellows to focus solely on the project has been really helpful, it’s amazing what you can get done in 8 weeks! We’re ending the fellowship with multiple ideas on how to improve our marketing, including one in production."

"We have gained valuable experience in hosting fellows and this has opened up the possibility for 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 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 yet deliverable, they've made visible steps toward success, and in the modeling phase, they've done faster than I expected. It looks as though we will finish this fellowship with an example of the model we can use to build it into pipelines.

“Hosting Victoire has been an incredible asset to our team. Her 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 on how our projects on the ground can be improved”

“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 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.”

“It was useful to gain input and insight from a different perspective, and the Ishango team provided interesting ideas and solutions for the problem." The fellows were engaged and enthusiastic from the start of the project, explaining their ideas and asking some challenging, insightful questions throughout, which was great.

"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 analyze 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."