Applications Invited for Lacuna Fund 2024 RFPs in Antimicrobial Resistance and Natural Language Processing

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About the Organization

Lacuna Fund is the world’s first collaborative effort to provide data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs in low- and middle-income contexts globally with the resources they need to produce labeled datasets that address urgent problems in their communities.

About the Grant

Lacuna Fund provides data scientists, researchers, and social entrepreneurs with the resources they need to either produce new training and evaluation datasets to address an underserved population or problem, augment existing datasets to be more representative, or update old datasets to be more sustainable. All datasets produced will be locally developed and owned, and they will be openly accessible to the international community while adhering to best practices regarding ethics and privacy.

Lacuna Fund aims to fund organizations working at the intersection of AI and social impact to provide them with the resources they need to address urgent problems in their local communities. We aim to cultivate capacity and support emerging organizations as well as experienced researchers in the field.

Our funding domains include datasets for machine learning in Agriculture, Language, Health, and Climate. Lacuna Fund’s RFPs fall under one or more of these domains.

Applications are currently open for our 2024 RFPs in Antimicrobial Resistance and Natural Language Processing.

Eligibility

To be eligible for funding, organizations must:  

• Be either a non-profit entity, research institution, for-profit social enterprise, or a team of such organizations. Individuals must apply through an institutional sponsor. Partnerships are strongly encouraged as a way to strengthen collaboration and maximize the benefits derived from the use of the datasets, but only the lead applicant will receive funds. 
• Have a mission supporting societal good, broadly defined.  
• Be headquartered in the country or region where data will be collected.  Institutions based in other countries or regions can apply as partners of the lead institution.  As stated above, only the lead applicant will receive funds.
• Have all necessary national or other approvals to conduct the proposed research. The approval process may be conducted in parallel with the grant application, if necessary. Approval costs, if any, are the responsibility of the applicant. 
• Have the technical capacity – or the ability to build this capacity through a partnership described in the proposal – to conduct dataset labeling, creation, aggregation, expansion, and/or maintenance, including the ability to apply best practice and established standards in the specific domain (e.g. antimicrobial resistance; natural language processing) to allow high quality AI/ML analytics to be performed by multiple entities.

How to Apply

Eligibility for AMR 2024: The lead applicant must be based in a low- or middle-income country, and must propose work in the same country, or a low- or middle-income country in the same region.

• Read the full RFP
• Submit your proposal in the application portal by the deadline.
• August 23, 2024 – Proposals due

Eligibility for NLP 2024: The geographic focus of this call is Africa and Latin America.  

• Read the full RFP
• Submit your proposal in the application portal by the deadline.
• August 23, 2024 – Proposals due

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