Egypt has unveiled targets to back 250 artificial intelligence start-ups and attract up to seven AI data centres by 2030 to bolster its domestic digital economy.
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An AIFOD weekly review examined how AI value is shifting toward systems, workflows and local data following AMD's acquisition of World Labs.
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The African Space Agency has launched applications for a specialised AI and Earth observation training workshop for researchers and entrepreneurs in Rabat.
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SMART Zambia Institute has partnered with Huawei to train civil servants and technologists on public-sector artificial intelligence applications.
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An AIFOD panel examined global tiers of artificial intelligence adoption, urging emerging economies to focus on essential infrastructure rather than frontier models.
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Eswatini’s national standards body and AICE Africa have launched a centre of excellence to build domestic capacity for auditing and certifying AI…
Kenya and UNESCO have expanded a digital leadership programme to train 9,000 public servants in artificial intelligence governance and ethics…
At the AIFOD Geneva Summit 2026, Ambassador Muhammadou M.O. Kah argued that small African countries should leverage their size to lead in practical…
Moroccan healthtech firm ABA Life has signed a $40 million investment deal with Admaius Capital Partners to expand its sovereign AI healthcare…
Cassava Technologies has become an authorised reseller of Anthropic's Claude AI models across Africa via the Amazon Bedrock platform.
South Africa-founded clinical AI startup Healthleap has secured $38 million in seed and Series A funding to expand its automated inpatient risk…
Panellists at the AIFOD Geneva Summit discussed whether smaller nations should build, buy, or share artificial intelligence infrastructure and…
Western Cape policy chief Labeeqah Schuurman outlined how regional governments can use AI and infrastructure to improve public services at an event…
Qatar has formally established a National Center for Artificial Intelligence to coordinate policy, draft regulations, and oversee adoption across the…
Experts at an AIFOD Geneva Summit panel in August explored how decentralised systems, local knowledge, and human judgement will shape the next…
Five African universities have partnered with WISE and The Education Collaborative to deploy and evaluate campus-specific artificial intelligence…
The University of Lagos and the University of Birmingham have unveiled a joint Master of Science in AI and Data Technologies to train advanced…
At an AIFOD summit, GSMA's Kenechi Okeleke stressed that narrowing the connectivity divide and building local-language models are vital for inclusive…
Panelists at an event hosted by AIFOD, which publishes this site, urged the Global South to take an active role in crafting balanced artificial…
AIFOD met with Lesotho's ambassador in Geneva to discuss artificial intelligence governance, capacity building, and collaboration ahead of the Geneva…
