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Use Case 5: Radiolytica - Leveraging AI Tools to Protect Communities

from Harmful Content in Eastern DRC 4.4-Productivity

Organization: Fondation Hirondelle

Country: RDC, Switzerland

Contact Person(s):
Gilles Magnin, gilles.magnin@ hirondelle .org, +41797267594

1 Use Case Summary Table

Item Details
Category Productivity

Radiolytica is an AI-driven system designed to monitor, transcribe, and
analyze online community radio broadcasts in Eastern DRC, a region where
Problem radio remains the primary information source due to low internet penetra-
Addressed tion. The core problem addressed is the rampant spread of misinformation,
disinformation, and hate speech through radio channels, which traditional
manual monitoring methods cannot effectively mitigate.

Key Aspects of See initial application
Solution

Technology AI, NLP, community radios
Keywords

Data Availability Public (community radio recordings)
Metadata (Type of
Data) Audio (community radio recordings) and text (transcriptions of recordings)
Model Training and ON-the-shelf usage of industry leading tools (Speech-to-text, LLM)
Fine-Tuning
Testbeds or Pilot
Deployments Not available

Code repositories Not available

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