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Brazzaville, future African capital of artificial intelligence?

By Olivier Caslin, from Brazzaville

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Posted on September 15, 2023 09:06

Engineer Éric Armel Ndoumba, general coordinator of CARIA, on 28 June 2023 at the Université Denis Sassou-Nguesso, Kintélé, near Brazzaville. ©Arsène Mpiana for Jeune Afrique

A digital ecosystem is developing in the Republic of the Congo, boosted by this month’s opening of the first AI research centre in Africa.

On 24 February 2022, Congolese Prime Minister Anatole Collinet Makosso led a government delegation to Denis Sassou-Nguesso University in Kintélé, on the northern outskirts of Brazzaville, to inaugurate the first campus of the African Research Center on Artificial Intelligence (Centre Africain de Recherche en Intelligence Artificielle, or CARIA).

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