There is a couple somewhere managing a chronic disease. One of them is sick. The other has learned to carry it quietly. They have learned, the way people do under long pressure, to hide exactly how close they are to breaking. For four years at ETH Zurich, Dr. George Jojo Boateng(@_jojoboateng ) built a machine that could see what they were hiding. Not a therapist. Not a doctor. A smartwatch. Trained on pulse, movement, and sleep data to detect emotional breakdown before the person wearing it said a single word. He built an empathy machine. That one project tells you everything about how this man thinks. Not "what can AI do?" But: what is the human experience AI is still missing, and how do I close that gap? Go back to Mfantsipim. George is in Form 1. The dining hall has a hygiene problem. Most students complain. George builds a dishwasher from scratch. He is 14. The instinct never changes. Only the problem gets bigger. Dartmouth College, BA in Computer Science, MS in Engineering. Then ETH Zurich, the empathy machine. Then Amazon Alexa AI, teaching machines to hear what people actually mean, not just what they say. Then Cambridge. The résumé that usually ends with someone staying abroad forever. George had been building for home since 2014. His second year at Dartmouth. He cofounds Nsesa Foundation in Ghana and runs it not as a donor, but as a builder. Real programs. Real students. Real infrastructure, assembled quietly while the global career is also being built. In 2022, @kwame_ai . Adesua for science education. SuaCode, the smartphone coding platform MIT Technology Review recognized for tackling Africa's IT skills gap. @eskwai_ for legal research. And Brilla AI. An AI contestant training to compete in the NSMQ. The competition he grew up watching. The stage where Ghanaian teenagers carry the full weight of their schools and communities on a single buzzer answer. He is building a machine to sit at that table. Forbes 30 Under 30. MIT Technology Review 35 Innovators Under 35. IBM New Creators. Africa Union Education Innovation Prize. 35 peer-reviewed publications. Established Researcher and Lecturer at ETH Zurich. The credentials are real. But they are not the story. The story is a 14-year-old at Mfantsipim who looked at a broken system and thought: I can fix that. And has never stopped thinking exactly that, on any continent, in any institution, for any problem. The empathy machine always comes home.

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Deloitte-SuaCode Smartphone Programming Course 2024 (Fully-Funded) SuaCode is a smartphone-based online course that teaches coding in English and French to Africans with little or no programming experience through the SuaCode Android app. opd.to/47suAcR

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This one was quite the ride, challenging my attitude, assumptions. Allowed SuaCode to scale its course from a handful of participants to thousands dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/35079…

Our poster submission: “Why SuaCode?”: Understanding African Students’ Motivations for Taking a Smartphone-Based Online Coding Course” was accepted for publication at one of my favorite conferences @acmcompass. Excited to share this work at Cape Town in August!

We are excited to announce a new chapter in the evolution of our company. After careful consideration and a commitment to growth. Suacode @suacodeai is now Kwame AI Inc (@kwame_ai) suacode.ai/suacode-ai-inc-is… #NewNameSameDedication #ai #growth

Our #wcw for this week is Mercy Akyaa Darteh from Ghana. She’s a suacode 2020 fellow, and currently a Meteorology and Climate Science student at K.N.U.S.T, Kumasi. . . . #suacodeai #womancrushwednesday #africatech #edtech #100daysofcode #coders #developer #programmer #codergirl

Our #wcw for this week is Suzzy Smith Mensah from Ghana, a suacode 2020 fellow & a Water and Sanitation grad from the University of Cape Coast. She currently works as a Graduate Trainee at Developers in Vogue. #suacodeai #womancrushwednesday #africatech #edtech #100daysofcode

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SuaCode Smartphone Programming Course – June 2022 (Scholarship Available) SuaCode is a smartphone-based online course that teaches coding in English and French to Africans with little or no programming experience through the SuaCode Android app. bit.ly/3yxCouB

Our #wcw for this week is Fumbi Oguntoyinbo, a student at the Federal Polytechnic Bida, Niger State, Nigeria studying Computer Science. She is a #suacode 2020 fellow. #suacodeai #womancrushwednesday #africatech #edtech #100daysofcode #computer #coders #Nigeria #Tech #STEM

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