Country	Areas of application	Policy Priority
Rwanda	Driving AI-Specific Education, Training and Research Initiating Public Sector Reform with AI Building Strategic Partnerships	Google’s support with graduate programs in Machine Intelligence at the African Institute for Mathematical Sciences center in Rwanda. Rwanda has enlisted anti-epidemic robots in its fight against the coronavirus Rwanda’s 10-year contract with Babyl (a digital healthcare provider), to create Africa’s first universal primary healthcare service, which introduces an AI-powered triage and symptom-checker platform; drone delivery service with Zipline, which delivers medicine and blood to otherwise difficult-to-reach areas; and partnership with the World Economic Forum to increase the country’s diagnostic capacities for detecting cancer.
Lesotho	Driving AI-Specific Education, Training and Research	In Lesotho, the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science in the National University of Lesotho is now mandated to include research on AI systems and projects.
Bostwana	Developing National AI Strategies	Botswana’s plan to use AI through its Science, Tech and Innovation Action Plan to foster economic growth and job creation was approved by the President’s Cabinet in September 2019 and scheduled for submission to Parliament for adoption.
Cameroon	Driving AI-Specific Education, Training and Research	Cameroon opened its first AI Centre at the University of Yaounde. Hosted at the National Advanced School of Engineering, Polytech, of the University of Yaounde, the Centre provides top-notch services for students, trainers, companies as well as other partner organisations.
Uganda	Establishing AI Agencies, Task Forces and Commissions Promulgating AI Laws and Regulations Initiating Public Sector Reform with AI Building Strategic Partnerships	Uganda’s national AI taskforce will focus on addressing local issues, including increasing agricultural production, on which the largest percentage of the country’s population relies. Uganda set up its taskforce to advise government on domesticating AI to fast-track the country’s economic development. expressed a desire to negotiate a new international instrument. The aim of the treaty is to address concerns over lethal autonomous weapons. Uganda, it is also used to detect gunshots in South Africa.
Burundi	Driving AI-Specific Education, Training and Research	Researches are interesting on AI and Cybersecurity
Kenya	Establishing AI Agencies, Task Forces and Commissions Initiating Public Sector Reform with AI Building Strategic Partnerships	Kenya established a Blockchain & Artificial Intelligence Taskforce to contextualize the application of AI in areas of the country’s financial inclusion, cyber-security, land titling, election and single digital identity processes. Blockchain technology is being used by government departments in Kenya, including the respective Ministries of Lands and Health The African Development Bank’s partnership with Microsoft to launch the Coding for Employment Programme in Côte d’Ivoire, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Senegal.
Ghana	Promulgating AI Laws and Regulations Building Strategic Partnerships	At the United Nations (UN), Ghana, supported by Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, amongst other non-African States, expressed a desire to negotiate a new international instrument. The aim of the treaty is to address concerns over lethal autonomous weapons. Google’s first Africa AI lab in Ghana, providing developers with necessary research to build products that can solve Africa’s unique problems.
Nigeria	Establishing AI Agencies, Task Forces and Commissions Promulgating AI Laws and Regulations Building Strategic Partnerships	Nigeria has announced the establishment of its National Agency for Research in Robotics and AI, which will leverage collaborations with international research bodies on robotics and AI and enable AI education for the country. Kenya’s new data protection law complies with European Union legal standards, placing restrictions on how personal data can be handled, stored and shared. The same applies to South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act and Nigeria’s Data Protection Regulation of 2019. In the three cases, applicability to AI can be inferred where personal data is involved in AI-based transactions.
Egypt	Developing National AI Strategies	Egypt has set their AI strategy on two main axes, namely a specialized AI academy, and [6] using AI for governance and business enterprises driven by data science.
Morocco	Driving AI-Specific Education, Training and Research	In Morocco, the UEMF is opening its doors to the Euromed School of EIDIA, a brand-new center dedicated towards AI research, development, and education. Also, Morocco’s AI training programmes supported by the French Ecole Polytechnique.