African Artificial Intelligence Lab
(AfriAI Lab)
The AfriAI Lab is a project run in collaboration between two public academic institutions in Tanzania, The University of Dodoma (UDOM) & Nelson Mandela African Institution of Science and Technology (NM-AIST). The Lab fosters capacity development, research, and innovation in responsible Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its application in addressing African societal and developmental problems. Below are the Lab themantic areas:- General, Health Care, Agriculture and Environment Conservation, Infrastructure and Data Ecosystem and Digital Economy and Small Scale Industry.
The main objective of the Lab is to strengthen the capacity of a public university in Africa to conduct high-quality, multidisciplinary, responsible AI research and teaching by establishing a multidisciplinary and gender-inclusive Africa Artificial Intelligence for Development research laboratory.
To strengthen research and teaching capacity in responsible AI across Anglophone Africa through mentorship, community building and the equitable distribution of high-quality teaching and training materials.
To increase understanding of how to advance responsible, multidisciplinary and gender- inclusive African AI research methodologies and training capacity for new and experienced researchers through mentoring and exploratory research.
To explore how to support AI deployment and commercialization from academia to the private sector.
To become a multi-disciplinary lab that ventures in cutting-edge AI research, training, and development of industrially scalable products that solves societal challenges in Africa in equitable and gender responsive manner.
To become a multi-disciplinary lab that ventures in cutting-edge AI research, training, and development of industrially scalable products that solves societal challenges in Africa in equitable and gender responsive manner.