The United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP), through its United for Efficiency (U4E) initiative, has published the Sustainable Procurement Guidelines for Data Centres and Servers (the Guidelines). It aims to help governments, public institutions, and procurement authorities ensure that data centre infrastructure is…
In August 2025, UN Member States agreed to set up two new global AI governance mechanisms: i) The Global Dialogue on AI Governance, and ii) The Independent International Scientific Panel on AI, as part of the Global Digital Compact process.…
The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has released its 2025 World Trade Report, “ Making trade and AI work together to the benefit of all.’ The report notes that the benefits of artificial intelligence (AI) are currently concentrated in a small…
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published its’ 2025 report, “Governing with Artificial Intelligence: The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions.” The report examines how governments are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in core…
As governments wrestle with how to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) and the resultant gap in AI specific regulations, the courts are stepping in to draw the first lines. Recent cases across different jurisdictions have shown how despite the absence of…
The Financial Services Commission (FSC) in Mauritius has released a Guidance on the Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Financial Services (the Guidance). It covers insurance, wealth management, and non- banking financial institutions, and outlines principles that ensure the…
In the past quarter, discussions on artificial intelligence (AI) in Africa have shifted from high level declarations and planning to regulatory and governance strategies. There has been an increase in countries moving to develop national AI strategies, action plans or…
On 28 August, DIFA Consultancy hosted an interactive Executive Breakfast Meeting on “Developing an AI Governance Program”, bringing together industry leaders, legal minds, and technology experts for a practical discussion on how organizations can responsibly develop and adopt artificial intelligence (AI).…
On 3 July 2025, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) published its Survey on Artificial Intelligence in the Banking Sector (the Survey), providing insights into the current state of AI adoption across Kenya’s financial institutions. The Survey recognized AI’s transformative…
In the absence of a globally accepted framework on AI system impact assessments, the ISO and IEC’s 42005 serves as a guide to stakeholders in the global AI ecosystem, i.e., developers, deployers and users of AI systems. An impact assessment…
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