# Masakhane

Masakhane is a research community working on natural-language technologies for African languages.

Type: organization. Context selected by Escape Meridian; inclusion is not endorsement.

[Collection](/entities/masakhane)
[Original website](https://www.masakhane.io/)

## Sources

- [Masakhane](https://www.masakhane.io/publications): Put language communities and local research capacity inside the story of AI capability.

## Perspectives


## Terminal notes

- [Language communities build what benchmarks leave out](/notes/masakhaner-language-capacity.md): MasakhaNER's authors release named-entity-recognition data, code and models for ten African languages. The work makes participation and language coverage part of the practical infrastructure of AI research.

## Parallels

- [Access is a beginning](/parallels?parallel=access-and-power): Who can turn access to AI into a real choice?

## Context references

- [https://www.masakhane.io/](https://www.masakhane.io/)
- [https://www.masakhane.io/publications](https://www.masakhane.io/publications)

Latest published distillations: [Publications API](/api/pipeline/publications?entity=masakhane)