Archive Overview
Gates-funded and related development work relevant to NAISH – the prior deployments, platforms, and use cases the Hub builds on.
The Projects Archive gathers Gates-funded and related development work that informs NAISH – the prior deployments, platforms, and delivery partners whose experience shapes the Hub's identified use cases. NAISH is not starting from zero: many of its target use cases (agricultural advisory, digital health coaching, health-record digitisation, frontline data collection) have direct antecedents in programmes that have already run at national scale across Nigeria and the wider Global South.
This section documents those projects so a builder, partner, or reviewer can see the lineage behind each use case and reuse the platforms, datasets, and lessons that already exist.
Why this archive matters
- Reuse over reinvention – several NAISH use cases can adopt or extend existing platforms rather than build new ones.
- Evidence base – prior deployments carry peer-reviewed evidence of impact, which strengthens the case for the Hub.
- Delivery partners – the organisations behind these projects are candidate implementers for NAISH use cases.
Featured projects
AI-DPI Sandbox
DSN's managed AI + DPI sandbox and 12-week residency that took 9 Nigerian startups to market-ready – the direct predecessor to NAISH.
GovLLMiner / AIKano
Offline-first, governance-tuned LLM piloted for Kano State – evidence from unstructured government data on local GPU.
GenAIGov
DSN's live, Gates-funded AI governance readiness platform scoring maturity across the STANDARD framework.
EdoDiDA Chatbot
DSN's Gates-funded natural-language chatbot on DHIS2 for Edo State – plain-language insight and recommendations from government data.
DiCert MCP
An MCP server as AI-DPI middleware – exposes DPI data as secure, callable tools so AI workflows and voice agents interact with DPI safely.
AfricanVoices
DSN's Gates-funded African speech-data platform – 1,900 hours across Hausa, Igbo, Nigerian Pidgin, and Yoruba.
Dimagi
The social enterprise behind CommCare and Open Chat Studio – Gates-funded, open-source, offline-first platforms for frontline health and development.
Masakhane
Grassroots pan-African NLP collective – open datasets, models, and benchmarks for African languages, incl. Nigerian and health-relevant resources.
Gooey.AI
Low-code platform for multilingual AI copilots over WhatsApp/voice – proven frontline health and agriculture deployments (Farmer Chat, UN IOM Afiya).
Identified Use Cases
Seven use cases identified for the node, each with sector, model profile, GPU intensity, and the Hub's role.
AI-DPI Sandbox
DSN's AI-DPI Sandbox, Product Design and Technical Support project – a managed cloud environment and residency that helped Nigerian startups build AI on Digital Public Infrastructure.