  As language and speech technologies become more advanced, the lack of
fundamental digital resources for African languages, such as data, spell
checkers and Part of Speech taggers, means that the digital divide between
these languages and others keeps growing. This work details the organisation of
the AI4D - African Language Dataset Challenge, an effort to incentivize the
creation, organization and discovery of African language datasets through a
competitive challenge. We particularly encouraged the submission of annotated
datasets which can be used for training task-specific supervised machine
learning models.
