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Reimagining AI Partnerships

Through bold private sector partnerships between the G7 and Africa,we catalyze small powerful infrastructure innovations in data, talent,green compute, trust, and financing — creating multiplier effects thatgenerate jobs, grow industries in priority sectors, and unlock practicalAI tools built with Africa’s innovators.

1,000+
Innovators Engaged
1.5M
GPU Hours Deployed
USD 3M+
Compute Credits
25
Partnerships Re-imagined
18
Countries
The AI Foundations

Five pillars where the AI Hub unlocks resources for today and builds foundations for tomorrow

Data, Green Compute, Talent, Trust, and Financing. Together, the AI Hub’s partners are shaping the architecture of global AI participation: deciding where compute will power humanity’s progress, which models will set the standards for generations, which regulations will unlock innovation, and where the world’s talent will converge to build our shared future.
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Data
Unlocking AI-ready, reusable, and locally relevant datasets to fuel sustainable development
innovations.
02
Green Compute
Expanding access to
affordable and sustainable
computing power for African AI innovators.
03
Talent
Strengthening talent pipelines and skills development through
strategic partnerships with
leading networks.
04
Trust
Building cyber resilience,
accountability, and responsible AI frameworks together with the private sector.
05
Financing
Creating an ecosystem driven pipeline for right-sized investments, delivering immediate funding unlocks with VCs while advancing the connective tissue that turns available capital into deployed, compounding investment at continental scale.
AI Diffusion Pathways
Activating AI Diffusion Pathways in Africa
A trilateral Italy–Kenya–India partnership is building reusable AI foundations for the continent. Assets flow across borders from Africa to India and Italy—code, models, and know-how.
Turning experiments into shared, scalable AI infrastructure for the Global South.
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Italy
G7 leadership, Mattei Plan financing, CINECA compute infrastructure
Assets flow across borders
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Kenya
African anchor, sovereign AI adoption, trilateral coordination hub
Code, models, know-how
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India
Voice AI pathways, DPI expertise, Global South technology transfer
The Opportunity

AI is expected to contribute US$15.7 trillion to the global economy by 2030 — yet only 10% will be felt in the Global South without coordinated action.

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About the AI Hub

Co-creating with Africa’s AI
ecosystem

The AI Hub for Sustainable Development is a G7-endorsed collaborative
initiative co-led by Italy’s Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy (MIMIT) and
UNDP under the Italy-Africa Mattei Plan. Africa’s story is one of momentum —
the continent holds many of the critical minerals that power global AI
infrastructure and is home to the world’s youngest population.
Rather than transferring technology or providing training on existing tools, theAI Hub is strengthening the essential foundations of AI development — data,compute, talent, trust, and financing — to enable African innovators to createsolutions that serve both local development priorities and global markets.
Operating across 18 Mattei Plan countries, the Hub anchors programmes inenergy, agriculture, health, water, education and training, and infrastructure.
Explore Our Partners Model
“The AI Hub is Italy’s concrete and strategic response to the challenge of global innovation, in line with the decisions made by the Italian G7 Presidency and the Mattei Plan.”
Senator Adolfo Urso — Minister, MIMIT, Italy
Co-led by
Italy MIMIT + UNDP
Equal co-leadership under the Italy-Africa Mattei Plan, G7-endorsed at Borgo Egnazia 2024.
Compute Partner
CINECA — Leonardo Supercomputer
1.5 million GPU hours deployed to 54 active innovators across agriculture, health, energy, and education.

Imeidhinishwa na viongozi wa G7, Kituo cha AI cha Maendeleo Endelevu imeundwa ili kufikiria upya ushirikiano wa AI ulimwenguni na kuwezesha mazingira

Our Focus Areas

Kituo cha AI cha Maendeleo Endelevu

Dhamira yetu ni kukuza nafasi ambapo mawazo mapya yanaibuka na kustawi, ambapo suluhisho za mabadiliko na wabunifu wa Afrika na waanzilishi kujenga misingi ya AI - katika maeneo ya hesabu ya kijani, data na talanta - yanaunganisha katika mazingira ya mazingira ili kukua na kukuza ustawi kwa wote.

Kama Enrico Mattei, msukumo wa Mpango wa Mattei wa Italia na Afrika, alifafanua upya ushirikiano wa kimataifa katika miaka ya 1950, Italia inaendesha tena mazingira ya mazingira ya ushirikiano sawa kupitia Kituo cha AI. Kituo cha AI kimeunganishwa na Mkakati wa AI wa Umoja wa Afrika na imefungwa na nchi washirika 14 barani Afrika, ikichochea mabadiliko katika sekta sita muhimu.Algeria, Angola, Misri, Ethiopia, Ghana, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Msumbiji, Jamhuri ya Kongo, Senegal, Tanzania na Tunisia), kuchochea mabadiliko katika sekta sita muhimu-nishati, kilimo, afya, maji, elimu na mafunzo, na miundombinu.

Akili ya bandia iko tayari kuwa teknolojia inayobadilisha zaidi ya enzi zetu, na faida zake lazima ziwe zinapatikana kwa wote. Kwa Afrika, ambapo asilimia 60 ya Waafrika wako chini ya 25, AI inatoa fursa ya kipekee ya kuongeza ukuaji wa maendeleo ya jadi, kutoa suluhisho za ubunifu na yenye athari katika afya, elimu, kilimo, fedha, na utawala.

Suluhisho za ujasiri na ushirikiano zinahitajika kukidhi mahitaji ya kipekee ya soko la AI la Afrika. Imeko Roma, Italia, Kituo cha AI cha Maendeleo Endelevu linatambua umuhimu wa kufikiria upya mifano na rasilimali za ulimwengu ili kulingana na ukweli na matamanio ya wabunifu wa Afrika.

Hakuna mzunguko wa teknolojia uliofanana na uwezo wa AI wa kuharakisha maendeleo ya viwanda ya Afrika. Jiunge nasi kushirikiana suluhisho za kiasi na miundombinu, ukifanya kazi na wabunifu wa AI na wafanyabiashara wa kuanzisha mipaka.

Ufunguzi rasmi utajumuisha viongozi wa sekta ya kisiasa na ya kibinafsi kote G7, EU, Italia na Afrika, na matajio maarufu ikiwa ni pamoja na:

“Kituo cha AI cha Maendeleo Endelevu ni sehemu ya Mpango wa Mattei, kipaumbele cha sera ya nje ya Serikali ya Italia. Kwa chombo hiki tunataka kuchangia kufanikiwa kwa malengo ya maendeleo, kuchukua sekta binafsi na miradi ya kuvutia kwa soko.”

- Adolfo Urso - Waziri wa Biashara na Imetengenezwa nchini Italia, Serikali ya Italia

Wimbi la kwanza la mipango ya msingi

Uzinduzi rasmi wa Kituo cha AI cha Maendeleo Endelevu utaangazia wimbi la kwanza la mipango ya msingi yenye lengo la kuharakisha maendeleo ya viwandani inayowezesha AI kote Afrika.

Mwongozo wa Sanaa ya AI kwa Viwanda

Maonyesho yaliyoandaliwa na sanaa inayotokana na AI iliyowasilishwa kupitia wito wazi na waundaji wa Kiafrika na Italia, ikionyesha maono yao ya siku zijazo ya ukuaji wa viwanda nchini Afrika, inayoendeshwa na AI. Hizi ni kati ya mawasilisho zaidi ya 100 yaliyopokelewa katika nchi za washirika 14 za Mpango wa Mattei Italia na Afrika na Italia.

ALGERIA

Maneno ya M'Zab, Ndoto za Kesho
Djehaf Kaouthar

ANGOLA

'Mustaajali wa Kijani na AI ya Kiafrika
Chissola Marlene Neto Manuel

MISRI

Nile Nexus: Kuzaliwa upya wa AI
Anas Youssef

ETHIOPIA

Hali ya Hewa: Mustao wa Kahawa ya AI
Zekaria Yemane Berhe

GHANA

Mizizi ya Ubunifu: Ufahamu Mbili na AI
Abigail Oppong

ITALIA

Langhe Imeunganishwa na Moyo ya Afrika
Maura Micucci

PWANI YA KIDOVU

'Graines d'Avenir Ivoirien'
Eric Ade Tanauh

KENYA

Shamba la AfroTech: AI nchini Kenya
Stephen Ndiema

MAURITANIA

Taa za dijiti za jangwa
Sidi Mohamed Hmeyti

MOROKO

 'DeepRoots, DeepLeaf'
El Mahdi Aboulmanadel

MSUMBIJI

Ndoto kesho katika Vijiji vya Msumbiji
Mario Neves Gonçalo Chilundo

JAMHURI YA KONGO

Maono ya baadaye ya Congo inayotumiwa na AI
Matt Glesmycene Sensor

SENEGAL

Mwanamke, Ardhi, na Data
Oumar Ndiaye

TANZANIA

Ufupi wa Kujifunza AI wa Tunisia
Amina Mwenyezi Mungu

TUNISIA

'Uwango wa Kujifunza AI cha Tunisia'
Amina Mwenyezi Mungu

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