Data Community Africa: From Inception to Future Aspiration

As the Co-founder of D.C.A shared the inspiring story behind our data community comprising Data Engineers, ML Engineers, Data Analysts, AI Engineers, and so on—how it all began, our impact, and our vision for the future.

This slide presentation is about Data Community Africa (D.C.A.) - its origin story, evolution, and plans. Here's what it covers:

1. Introduction & Background
- Introduces Gift Ojeabulu, the co-founder who also works in ML Developer Relations at dvc.ai and serves on advisory boards

2. Overview of D.C.A.'s Core Mission
Their work is structured around three main areas:
- Education: Training, certifications, mentorship programs, and DataCamp scholarships
- Community Building: Events like conferences, hackathons, meetups, plus job opportunities
- Advocacy: Promoting data literacy, responsible AI practices, and open source contributions

3. Organizational Journey & Results
- Documents their progress from identifying initial community gaps
- Shows milestones achieved between 2022-2023
- Discusses challenges they've faced
- Outlines future aspirations

The presentation aims to tell the complete story of D.C.A. while highlighting their commitment to building Africa's data science community, as reflected in their closing quote about the power of working together.

Picture Link: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/datafestafrica_datafestafrica-datafestafrica2024-ugcPost-7253325189701132288-r5gI?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Video link : : https://youtu.be/HWCeKc8NgII?t=741

Transcript

1. Data Community Africa: From Inception to Future Aspiration. . Gift Ojeabulu
2. Co-founder of Data Community Africa ML Developer Relations at dvc.ai Advisory Board Member at DevNetwork , MLOps Community Lagos Lead. Twitter: GiftOjeabulu_ Linkedln : Gift Ojeabulu Who am I?
3. Table of contents 01 Intro to D.C.A as an organization About D.C.A 02 Identifying a Gap Within the Community. The 3 arms of D.C.A 03 How we started and the inspiration Journey since inception 04 Our Success from 2022 - 2023 from Community and Education perspective Milestone 05 Struggles we’ve overcome but need future support to catalyze our growth Challenges 06 Future Aspiration What Next?
4. What, Why D.C.A? 01
5. The 3 arms of D.C.A
6. Education and Capacity Building Training programs, Certifications, Mentorship, scholarships (Datacamp)
7. Community Engagement, Networking and Career Development Conferences, Hackathons, Meetups, Webinars, Online Community, Jobs (Propel)
8. Advocacy and Data Literacy Data Awareness, Ethics and Responsible AI, Research and publications, Open source in Data and AI
9. Our Journey since Inception... 03
11. Milestone...
12. 2022 - 2023 Optional image Here Milestone in Numbers
13. 2023 impact Milestones in Numbers (Datacamp)
15. Challenges...
16. What Next?
17. “Coming together is a beginning; staying together is progress; and working together is success.” Henry Ford
19. Thank you!