July 20 to July 31, 2026 | Uyo, Nigeria
10:00 - 12:00 Housekeeping & Logistics #Theme Overview – Tech for Open Minds (Dr. Rhoda Asuquo)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Introduction: About SICSS & CSS (Prof Chris Bail (SICSS Founder, USA)) , (Matthew J. Salganik(USA)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Introduction: WikiMedia Foundation (Wikimedia Team)
10:00 - 12:00 Expert Insight [Problem: Misinformation, Knowledge Inequality, Public Health knowledge, Gender bias, Information reliability, Geographic Representation Graph etc. Digital Solutions: Knowledge graph, Topic evolution chat, Topic modeling to discover themes in articles, Text classification (e.g., classify articles by domain), Sentiment analysis, Natural Language Processing] (Prof. Aniekan Brown) (Augustine Otobi)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Exploring Data Structure, API Access, Data Cleaning and Preprocessing (Dr. J. Nathan Matias)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Research Speed Dating: Group Project Formation #Problem Dart Wheel (Dr. Uduakobong Otu)
10:00 - 12:00 Building web scraping architecture: HTML Tags, Article text, Hyperlinks, Categories, Revision history. #Wikipedia scraper (Facilitator)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 LLM Visualization (Knowledge Graph, Topic evolution charts etc. #WikiText) (Joseph David)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Communicating Computational Research (Dr. Moses Udoisoh)
10:00 - 12:00 Accessing Big Data for NLP, Preprocessing, Tokenization etc. #Wikipedia dump (Dr. J. Nathan Matias)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Feature Engineering (TF-IDF vectors, Word embeddings) (Facilitator)
15:30 – 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Model Training and Deployment (NLP models) (Augustine Otobi)
10:00 - 12:00 Group Brainstorm (Problem Statement, Computational Method Selection) (Dr. Uduakobong Otu)
10:00 - 12:00 Paper Development and Peer Review Process (Facilitator)
12:00 – 17:00 Group Project (Participants)
10:00 - 12:00 Classification and Clustering (Articles by topic, detect biased articles, detect misinformation patterns) ((George Odo), Augustine Otobi)
12:00 – 17:00 Group Project (Participants)
10:00 - 12:00 Quantitative Narrative Analysis (Dr Yohanna Waliya)
12:00 – 17:00 Group Project (Participants)
10:00 - 12:00 Fireside Chat with a Research Innovator (Facilitator)
12:00 – 17:00 Group Project (Participants)
10:00 - 12:30 Project Presentations & Critical Feedback (Prof. Timothy A. Ekwere), (Prof. Tunde Ope-Davies)
12:30 – Departure
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