AI Governance for Africa & Emerging Markets is a six-week specialisation for the people who must govern artificial intelligence where the textbooks were not written for them. It takes the international toolkit — ISO/IEC 42001, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, the EU AI Act — and asks the harder question: how do you govern AI well in a country with thin connectivity, limited compute, a young data-protection regime, scarce specialist skills and a regulator still finding its feet? The answer is not to copy a European framework wholesale, nor to abandon standards as a luxury, but to adapt them to the realities of an emerging market without losing what makes them work.
The course is anchored in Nigeria — the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, the NDPC, NITDA and the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy — and set in the wider African frame of the African Union Continental AI Strategy, the Malabo Convention and Smart Africa. By the end you will be able to diagnose the governance constraints particular to emerging markets, develop a national or organisational AI policy that fits its context, govern public-sector and infrastructure realities honestly, and lead a programme that delivers economic value without importing harm.
For: Policy advisers and regulators, public-sector AI leads, development-agency programme staff, governance officers in banks, telcos and start-ups, and academics shaping AI strategy across Nigeria and the continent.