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Namibian AI training institution NOVA was founded around a number its executive director heard at a G20 session in South Africa: that Africa produces roughly 12 million graduates a year, and only three million find formal employment.
“Nine million continue going back to the streets because they don’t have formal jobs,” said Immanuel Antonius, NOVA’s executive direct...
Ethiopia is preparing to integrate artificial intelligence into its core school curriculum under the Digital Ethiopia 2030 programme, in a system serving almost 27 million students in general education and more than 828,000 in higher education.
The scale is the first thing worth registering. Ethiopia runs one of Africa’s largest education systems, and curriculum cha...
Vodafone Egypt and Cassava Technologies have launched Egypt’s first AI factory, offering government entities and businesses GPU-as-a-Service on NVIDIA hardware with data hosted and processed inside the country.
The facility forms part of Vodafone Egypt’s plan to invest more than EGP 20 billion ($300 million) in the current fiscal year, building on more than EGP 125 ...
Amazon Web Services has committed a further $1.5 billion to African infrastructure through 2029, on top of more than $819 million invested since 2018, and says it has trained over one million Africans in cloud and AI skills.
Jyoti Ball, general manager for sub-Saharan Africa at AWS, told the AWS Summit in Johannesburg that the Cape Town cloud region now carries 154 ...
South Africa’s traditional measure of the digital divide — whether people can get online — is no longer adequate, Deputy Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities Mmapaseka Steve Letsike told the first Youth, AI and the Future of Work Summit, setting out a three-tier framework in its place.
Speaking at Wits University at an event host...