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…
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…
The UNESCO AI Readiness Assessment Methodology (RAM), grounded in UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Ethics of AI, is a structured tool developed to help countries evaluate and enhance their preparedness for deploying artificial intelligence (AI) in ways that align with ethical,…
A growing number of African countries are actively advancing AI governance through national strategies. Recent launches of AI Strategies in Africa in 2025 include the Kenya AI Strategy (2025-2030), Lesotho’s AI Strategy, and the adoption of the second edition of…
At a glance Artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a transformative force across industries not just in Africa but across the globe. As AI is more widely adopted through various use cases in Kenya, and more broadly in Africa, it…
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