Africa's Tech Future, Today.
The Yaoundé Declaration asks African states to host all critical government data locally by 2030. What the data hosting target covers and who could benefit.
Meta's AI Academy Kenya pitchathon named 10 startups, from offline triage to Kiswahili AI and eTIMS tax tools. Two winners get $5,000 and an Istanbul pitch.
Victoria Abiodun transitioned from studying anatomy to building Web3 startups and developer communities across Africa. Driven by curiosity during the pandemic lockdowns, she taught herself blockchain concepts, co-founded a Web3 gaming platform, and is now authoring a book to simplify decentralized technology.
Tactful AI, the Egyptian agentic customer-experience startup, adds former e& CEO Hatem Dowidar as an investor after 11.7x ARR growth. What the deal tells us.
Healthleap, founded by South African siblings, raised $38M from Sequoia, First Round and Hummingbird to flag hospital patients whose conditions are missed.
Former University of Lagos students Dare Adeola and Olamide Onigbanjo built UniBeta AI to help students navigate complex academic syllabi. By leveraging artificial intelligence to process past questions and university course materials, the edtech startup offers personalized study paths for tertiary education.
Satlyt, led by founder and CEO Rama Afullo, raised an $8M seed round led by non sibi ventures to run AI apps on satellite computers already in orbit.
Alchymia is reimagining artificial intelligence architecture to run frontier models locally without massive server farms or screens. Founded by Ayomide Daniels, the startup has developed the Alchymia Bar, a screenless pocket-sized device designed for resource-constrained markets across Africa and Asia.
South Africa's Minister of Communications and Digital Technologies, Solly Malatsi, is working to rebuild the nation's national artificial intelligence policy framework. After withdrawing an earlier draft due to fabricated academic citations generated by AI, the ministry has instituted disciplinary proceedings and appointed an expert advisory panel to produce a verified policy.
UK firm FiveNines has been appointed to lead development of a 20MW AI data centre near Casablanca, the first piece of Nexus Core Systems' planned 180MW, renewable-powered AI Factory in Morocco.
Morocco's digital ministry and French AI company Mistral have released two open-source tools built for Moroccan Darija: a dialect identifier and a speech-to-text model that handles code-switching with French and English.
The World Bank says developing countries should stop chasing frontier AI models and focus on cheap, tailored tools that work on weak networks and in local languages. Its latest Africa update shows why the basics come first.
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