April 12, 2024 · 2 min read
VoxCroft’s careful monitoring of public sentiment toward this agency and the nature of rhetoric targeting the group allowed them to continue their work for three weeks after other agencies had evacuated their teams, saving the lives of both civilians in need and agency staff.
March 8, 2024 · 3 min read
Rebecca is a walking contradiction: She is a self-proclaimed introvert that flies all over the world to visit friends. She’s a digital nomad who loves nothing more than staying in her apartment in Cape Town. She’s a senior analyst as one of the youngest people on the VoxCroft team. She loves soccer but is still a Liverpool supporter.
January 10, 2024 · 4 min read
A genocide is the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a specific nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that group. Over the last year, VoxCroft has observed violent activities in several African countries that – if left unchecked – have the potential to escalate into full-blown genocides.
December 4, 2023 · 3 min read
The main form of transport for most South Africans – and indeed, large swathes of the African continent – are minibus taxis. These are typically 16-seater vehicles that drive along preestablished routes. The taxi industry in South Africa is an essential, but controversial, service on which millions of South Africans rely for transportation to work, school, and the conduct of their daily lives.
November 8, 2023 · 2 min read
As tension in the South China Sea grows, VoxCroft Analytics collected thousands of Filipino social and online media mentions during 2023. Our sentiment models, verified by human labelers, observed that Filipinos perceive their country to be at a high risk of being drawn into a conflict between the United States and China.
February 1, 2023 · 2 min read
Open-source analysis of public sentiment around the recent Ebola outbreak in Uganda shows the value of population-centric intelligence during health crises. Indeed, the study revealed considerable negativity around the government’s response, suggesting trust in public health measures—post COVID-19—is low. As such, Ugandan officials could face public perception challenges in responding to future health crises.
November 1, 2022 · 3 min read
VoxCroft’s highly targeted bilingual training data outperforms leading commercial machine translation services when it comes to building machine translation models for low-resource African languages.
August 26, 2022 · 5 min read
Recently, the organizers of Africa Tech Week asked me a great question: What does the metaverse mean for Africa?
July 26, 2022 · 3 min read
VoxCroft’s political risk and data analysis internship program is designed to train the next generation of intelligence professionals.