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<!DOCTYPE html>
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<title>ZLDC — Zimbabwe Language Data Commons</title>
<meta name="description" content="Zimbabwe's first governed, AI-ready Shona and Ndebele speech & text corpus — with open Gemma-based baseline models and a full data-collection platform.">
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<div class="logo">ZLDC</div>
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<a href="#problem">Why</a>
<a href="#build">What we build</a>
<a href="#traction">Traction</a>
<a href="#contact">Contact</a>
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<div class="mono kicker">Zimbabwe Language Data Commons</div>
<h1>AI that speaks Shona and Ndebele.</h1>
<p class="sub">Zimbabwe's first governed, AI-ready speech and text corpus for its 15 million Shona and Ndebele speakers — with open baseline models built on Gemma, and a data-collection platform designed for the field.</p>
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<a class="btn primary" href="deck.pdf">Read the pitch deck</a>
<a class="btn ghost" href="#contact">Partner with us</a>
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<div class="mono kicker">The problem</div>
<h2>Every AI product deployed in Zimbabwe fails at the same wall.</h2>
<p class="lede">Voice assistants, screen readers, and telemedicine triage all need one thing that has never existed: consented, licensed, AI-ready local speech data. Only scattered academic one-offs exist today.</p>
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<div class="n">15M+</div>
<div class="mono l">Shona & Ndebele speakers</div>
<div class="c">Extensible to 14 more official minority languages.</div>
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<div class="n">0</div>
<div class="mono l">Governed national corpora</div>
<div class="c">No consented, documented, licence-clear speech dataset exists.</div>
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<div class="n">1,219</div>
<div class="mono l">Connected health facilities</div>
<div class="c">Wired for telemedicine — none can understand a patient speaking Shona.</div>
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<div class="mono kicker">What we build</div>
<h2>A governed data engine, not a dataset dump.</h2>
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<div class="mono">01 · Corpus</div>
<h3>Governed speech & text commons</h3>
<p>Consented, anonymised, fully documented Shona/Ndebele recordings under a deliberate licence — open for African research, conditional for foreign commercial use. Health-triage and accessibility data streams are built in from day one.</p>
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<div class="mono">02 · Models</div>
<h3>Open baselines built on Gemma</h3>
<p>Speech-to-text and text-understanding baseline models, fine-tuned from Google's Gemma and released with the corpus — so every builder starts from a working baseline, not from zero.</p>
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<div class="mono">03 · Platform</div>
<h3>Collection apps & management hub</h3>
<p>A mobile app for consented field recording, a desktop app for transcription and QA, and one management platform tracking consent, quality, and contributor payments end-to-end. In active development.</p>
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<div class="mono kicker">Traction</div>
<h2>Partners signed before a dollar raised.</h2>
<p class="lede">Submitted to Zimbabwe's national AI for Impact Challenge (POTRAZ, Track 1: Data) in July 2026 with a full governance pack, consent framework, and budget.</p>
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<div class="mono">Academic</div>
<h3>Lupane State University</h3>
<p>Letter of support signed. The Department of Languages, Media & Communication Studies anchors Ndebele orthography, annotation QA, and supervised student recording sessions. Midlands State University partnership in progress.</p>
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<div class="mono">Community media</div>
<h3>Radio archives nationwide</h3>
<p>Letter of support from Ntepe-Manama Community Radio; engagement with the national broadcaster associations (ZACRAS, NACB) and stations across Zimbabwe's language regions.</p>
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<div class="mono">Accessibility & community</div>
<h3>Disability federations & IndabaX</h3>
<p>Letter of support from IndabaX Zimbabwe; accessibility data co-design with NASCOH, FODPZ, and the Zimbabwe National League of the Blind. Team active in the Google WAXAL ASR Challenge.</p>
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<div class="mono kicker">Contact</div>
<h2>Build language AI with us.</h2>
<p class="lede">We work with universities, broadcasters, disability organisations, health partners, and funders. If Zimbabwe's languages matter to what you're building, talk to us.</p>
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<a class="btn primary" href="mailto:tapiwamakandigoner@gmail.com">Email the team</a>
<a class="btn ghost" href="deck.pdf">Pitch deck (PDF)</a>
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<div class="logo" style="font-weight:700;">ZLDC</div>
<div class="mono" style="margin-top:8px;">Zimbabwe Language Data Commons</div>
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<p class="fine">Led by Tapiwa Makandigona with a founding team of three Zimbabwean citizens. ZLDC is an independent project and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, POTRAZ or Google.</p>
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