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Africa is getting better at measuring its preparedness for artificial intelligence. Countries track broadband access, digital skills, computing capacity, regulatory frameworks, and the number of people trained. Governments announce AI strategies, launch i

Kenya's Technopolis Development Authority - formerly the Konza Technopolis Development Authority - has signed a collaboration agreement with Amazon Web Services covering cloud adoption, digital skills and the establishment of an AWS Outpost at Konza. The

The Ethiopian Artificial Intelligence Institute, Addis Ababa University and the United Nations Development Programme have completed a two-week bootcamp for AI startups at minimum viable product stage - the first substantive output from the AI UniPod launc

Terra Industries has raised an additional $18 million, closing its seed round at $52 million and making the Nigerian-founded defence technology company one of

Open Access Data Centres and AI Analytics Intelligence have partnered to offer locally hosted AI and cloud infrastructure to African businesses, combining OADC's carrier-neutral facilities with enterprise AI and analytics platforms aimed at organisations

Greek multinational Amaco Energy Group plans to build a $1.5 billion (Sh194 billion) AI data centre in Mombasa that would run entirely off Kenya's national grid - a design that directly addresses the constraint which has stalled the country's flagship dat

South African organisations are navigating an AI environment that's evolving faster than any implementation roadmap can accommodate, says Andrew Rushworth, Practice Head of Microsoft Power Platform at Braintree. There's a particular kind of pressure that

Article written by Dr Shaheen Khan (Senior Academic & Programme Co-ordinator at Regent Business School) Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer an emerging technology confined to research laboratories or technology companies. It has become an integral p

MTN has added an AI-enabled Job Board to its Skills Academy, integrating vacancy discovery, skills-gap analysis and application tracking into the same platform where learners take courses - an attempt to close the distance between training and employment

Artificial intelligence will have a relatively small immediate effect on Ethiopian jobs, but weak digital infrastructure, skills shortages and limited local data could hold back the productivity gains the technology offers, according to the World Bank's W