AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX

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“A government that does not understand this technology we talk about cannot regulate it, cannot buy it well, or cannot use it well.”
Hon. Samuel Nartey George, Ghana's Minister of Communication, Digital Technology and Innovations.
We track what follows.
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#Tunisia : cheapest power AAGI has tracked this year at $0.070/kWh. Highest fibre score at 75. Two hours from #Europe

Also: 8 MW capacity, zero hyperscalers, zero pipeline.

Cheap power is a necessary condition, not a sufficient one.

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Tunisia's first AI strategy (2018-2025) had no single authority above it. https://t.co/eWWsMSbvdr lists it inactive.

The second (2026-2030) has a Head of Government-chaired Council + INPDP regulatory sandboxes.

Tunisia's own planning body says AI helped draft the plan itself.

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@shiftshapr Agreed on the sequencing. Purpose has to be a design constraint, not a downstream consideration, otherwise you get systems that perform well and serve elsewhere. So the layered web DPs you are exploring would have real data to test against. Our tracker: https://t.co/TEGb2ryHxX

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#Algeria : top implementation score AAGI has tracked. Researchers in the global top 2%. 8 MW of compute to hold it.

#Africa 's AI future won't be decided only by the systems it builds. It'll be decided by whether it gives its people a reason to stay.

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#Tunisia : 75 on the #AAGI tracker.

It finished a full #AI policy cycle. Published 2021, evaluated, successor adopted for 2026-2030. Most countries are still on their first.

Implementation still sits 33 points below average.

#Policy maturity is not delivery capacity.

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#Algeria : 57,702 students in AI master's programmes. Researchers in the global top 2%.

#Compute available to them: 8 MW. Zero hyperscalers. Zero pipeline.

Every other country AAGI tracked this year has a project coming. Algeria has none.

Talent without capacity relocates.

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#Algeria 's SEAAL deployed AI for water management. Leak detection, demand forecasting, distribution optimization.

Good goals. But who is accountable when the model gets it wrong?

Implementation: strongest tracked this year.
Transparency: 58, the widest gap recorded.

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#Algeria : 77 on the AAGI tracker.

Every country tracked this year showed weak implementation. Algeria breaks the pattern strongest pillar. But transparency sits 58 points below average, the largest gap recorded this year.

Doing the work. Not seen doing it.

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#Morocco : 35 MW today. A 500 MW AI campus planned with Naver and #NVIDIA . Positioning itself as the #Europe -#Africa compute bridge.

Is that strength, or exposure?

A bridge is also a chokepoint. Whose terms actually govern what gets built?

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A data centre is not just a building. It is a jurisdiction.

Morocco: 12 facilities, 35 MW today. A 500 MW AI campus planned with Naver and NVIDIA.

Fourteen times current national capacity in one site.

Whose rules govern what runs on it?

https://t.co/3utyX1bF15
#AAGI #Morocco

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A commercial report documented 189 AI disinformation campaigns across Africa. #AAGI cannot verify it. It sits behind a paywall.

That is the story.

The best data on African disinformation is not African.

You cannot govern what you cannot detect.

https://t.co/TEGb2rzfnv

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#Morocco : 75 on the #AAGI Policy Tracker.

Maroc IA 2030 targets $10bn in GDP and 50,000 jobs. AI centres across all 12 regions.

Regionally it scores 83 against a North Africa average of 57.

Strategy is strongest. Implementation sits 33 points below.

https://t.co/7O79d3GKBe

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#Nigeria 70 on the AAGI tracker. 1,368 compliance notices in one wave. 400+ loan app cases open.

And a borrower still cannot see whether their complaint went anywhere.

Does strong AI law mean anything if the public cannot see it working?

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#Nigeria 26 data centres. 150 MW. 6 submarine cables.

And $850m still leaves yearly for foreign cloud.

Owning the pipes is not the same as owning the value moving through them.

Its Digital Sovereignty Bill would price that exchange. A first in Africa.

https://t.co/uaiGyThoMz

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"Data protection is not an obstacle to AI. It is the foundation."

Dr Tolulope Pius-Fadipe, NDPC Nigeria, at AAGI's inaugural dialogue.

"If people don't understand their rights, they cannot exercise them."

#Nigeria has the law. Transparency sits 47 points below average.

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You tapped allow because you needed the loan.

Then you missed a payment, and the messages went to your mother.

NDPC: 400+ loan app privacy breach cases under investigation.

Nigeria has the law. Transparency sits 47 points below average.

https://t.co/puI3EznbyY
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#Nigeria : 70 on the AAGI Policy Tracker.

$850m leaves the country yearly for foreign cloud.

Strategy is its strongest pillar.
Transparency sits 47 points below average.

Strong laws written. The question is whether they can be seen and enforced.

https://t.co/7O79d3GKBe

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#Kenya week on AAGI ends here.

A seat at the world's table means little if the frameworks at home are still empty.

Governance is not what a nation says abroad.
It is what a citizen can rely on at home.

Measuring Today.
Governing Tomorrow.
Securing Africa's AI Future.

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