Project Timeline

Strategic Expansion: Building African-Led Language AI Infrastructure

KivuLingua AI advances iteratively through participatory phases, prioritizing foundation-building, model development, infrastructure scaling, and ecosystem integration. Each milestone expands linguistic coverage, technical capacity, community engagement and institutional partnerships while maintaining commitment to open science, ethical data practices and digital sovereignty for East Congolese language communities.

Q2 2024

Completed
  • Mashi language dataset foundation established
  • Community validation framework launched
  • Initial ASR model training

Q3 2024

In Progress
  • Dataset expansion to 500+ hours of audio
  • TTS model development for Mashi
  • Regional community workshops

Q4 2024

Planned
  • Expand to 3 additional Bantu languages
  • Open-source toolkit release
  • First public benchmark results

Q1 2025

Planned
  • Scale to 8 languages across Eastern Congo
  • Partnership announcements with institutions
  • Educational resource development