Topic

#AI

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Publications — 3

Research Note2026

Explainable AI for governance and public-sector decision support

Research Note2026

The Mirror Has a Margin: AI Bias and Fairness in African Training Data Contexts

Research Note2026

The Offline-First Imperative: Why African AI Must Work Without the Internet

Research Projects — 2

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Offline-First AI Systems for African Markets

Virtually all commercially deployed AI systems assume persistent internet connectivity. Africa's infrastructure reality — intermittent power, limited bandwidth, expensive data — makes this assumption invalid for most of the continent. The result is that the populations with the most to gain from AI remain systematically excluded from its benefits. ECADEL LABS is investigating what a genuinely offline-first AI architecture looks like: not adapted from cloud-first systems, but purpose-built for African connectivity realities.

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Consequence Modelling for Sub-Saharan Governance

Policy decisions in African governments — infrastructure investment, health policy, fiscal adjustments — carry systemic consequences that propagate across economic, social, and environmental systems simultaneously. Existing consequence modelling tools were built for Western institutional contexts with different data environments, governance structures, and systemic interdependencies. ECADEL LABS is developing consequence modelling frameworks specifically calibrated for Sub-Saharan African governance realities, with initial application to East African policy contexts.