Reginald E.N.O Mills

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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.
@PAAISummit

#Ghana #AI

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[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

#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 : 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.

#AAGI #AI

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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?

#AAGI #AIdatacenter #datacenter

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

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

#AI

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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?

#AAGI #TheAAGIVerdict #Africa #AI

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

#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.

#AAGI

[Reginald E.N.O Mills @Reginal85458623]

@WorldBankGroup That is why we introduced @AAGIndex It is Africa's independent AI governance
index, tracking policy readiness, AI risk incidents, investments, labour and infrastructure across all 55 African nations.

8 pillars. 80 indicators. Live data.

https://t.co/5X8q9wpygi

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

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
#AAGI #Nigeria

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

#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

#AAGI

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

#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.

#Africa

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

Kenya has a National AI Strategy.
An AI Bill in Parliament.
19 data centres. 65 MW.
The first tech envoy in Africa.
A seat on the UN's AI advisory body.

#Kenya is doing more than most.

So why did it take a court order to
enforce AI governance at home?

Drop your answer.

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"Our data is not text. It's oral,
it's visual, it's creative." Amb. Philip Thigo

Global AI models were trained on text.
#Africa 's knowledge lives in speech,image, craft and memory.

Borrowed frameworks leave gaps.

Africa can build its own compute and also write its own rules.

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

"If you're not on the table, you're on the menu.
And I do not want to be somebody's food."

Amb. Philip Thigo, Kenya's Special Envoy on Technology

But this line matters most:

"Our data is not text. It's oral, it's visual, it's creative"

Africa's governance cannot be imported

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#Kenya : Digital Health Act 2023.
AI Strategy 2025. AI Bill 2026.

June 2026: A High Court finds the
frameworks to govern digital health
still do not exist and awards costs
against the regulator itself.

A law without frameworks is not
governance. It is intention.

#AAGI

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

#Kenya : 75 on the #AAGI Policy Tracker

19 data centers. 65 MW capacity.
#Nairobi : East Africa's data hub.

#Rwanda 84 · #Ethiopia 77 · Kenya 75

Strategy is strongest.
Implementation is weakest 38 points below Kenya's own average.

Frameworks advance.
https://t.co/TEGb2ryHxX

[AFRICAN AI GOVERNANCE INDEX @AAGIndex]

84 on AAGI. Implementation: 20.
Agency approved. Data centers built.
Gap remains.

The gap between policy and practice is not a sign that Africa is failing.

It is a sign that Africa is honest
enough to measure itself.

#AAGI #Rwanda #PanAfricanVision
#AIGovernance #Africa