Analyzing millions of youth conversations in Africa

Mozambique is a country in southern Africa, a former Portuguese colony, where almost 40% of girls and adolescents become pregnant before the age of 18. An enormous challenge in developing countries to overcome poverty is to ensure that girls do not become pregnant at an early age. To this end, various international organizations and NGOs are actively working in Africa to help the governments advance this agenda. Currently, there are initiatives of support and sexual and reproductive education for girls, young women, and adolescents through digital media and SMS. In these media there is a dialogue between experts who guide and orient those who write, there are millions of conversations collected in recent years. All these conversations contain unstructured data that are of great value to understand over time the evolution of the concerns of those who use these channels and how to use this information to make better public policy decisions by the government with international support.