{"name":"Applied AI in Angola — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Angola, tagged by kind, industry, region and role, sourced and dated. A slice of the State of Applied AI record, maintained continuously by the Industrial Research Unit of the Straits Institute for Applied AI.","source":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/angola","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-10-29","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Angola","slug":"angola","iso2":"AO","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":6,"deployments":2,"evidenceImpact":1,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":3,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":6},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Agriculture & Food","region":"Angola","role":"Agricultural technicians, agronomy students","org":"Ministério das Telecomunicações, Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação Social (MINTTICS) through Gabinete de Gestão do Programa Espacial Nacional (GGPEN)","text":"MINTTICS has rolled out AI agriculture monitoring at the Instituto Técnico Agrário do Quéssua in Malanje, using satellite imagery to track crop conditions and climate shifts through the Observa Mais platform. Built by the GGPEN space office, the system now reaches a third province after Luanda and Bengo, with fifteen students and one teacher trained to pass on the know-how. Uíge, Zaire, Lunda Norte, Lunda Sul and Cabinda are earmarked next, widening Angola's push for satellite-based farm and weather tracking.","date":"2026-09-01","source":"https://angop.ao/noticias/tecnologia/plataforma-observa-mais-reforca-monitorizacao-agricola-no-quessua/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Angola","org":"Presidente da República / Instituto de Modernização Administrativa (IMA)","text":"Presidential approval has cleared a $6 million outlay for an AI platform for public administration in Angola, formalised through Despacho Presidencial n.º 342/26 under President of the Republic João Lourenço. The order launches a competitive bidding process alongside a governance framework, formal policy and countrywide programme to prepare civil servants for embedding AI into government services. Once live, the system will handle virtual assistants and automate routine administrative workflows.","date":"2026-08-27","source":"https://pti.ao/executivo-desembolsa-usd-6-milhoes-para-plataforma-de-inteligencia-artificial-na-administracao-publica/"},{"kind":"evidence-impact","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Angola","org":"Administração Geral Tributária (AGT)","text":"Angola's General Tax Administration uncovered through AI tax audits that 15,000 of the 40,000 firms declaring no 2025 revenue on Industrial Tax returns had logged transactions. The authority began testing machine learning in 2024 and now compares what businesses declare; chair José Leiria says those firms were informed and several amended filings.","date":"2026-07","source":"https://expansao.co.ao/empresas/detalhe/inteligencia-artificial-da-agt-apanha-15-mil-empresas-suspeitas-de-fuga-ao-fisco-73137.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Angola","org":"Government of Angola (MINTTICS)","text":"MINTTICS, Angola's Ministry of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, opened public feedback in 2025 on an 86-article draft Artificial Intelligence Law, marking the country's first move toward Angola AI regulation. Companies deploying AI systems would face binding duties around openness, fairness, safety and answerability, while individuals gain a legal right to reject decisions made entirely by machines. Wilful misuse carries penalties of up to 12 years' jail time for people and fines reaching 1.5 billion kwanzas for corporations under this proposed AI governance framework.","date":"2025-11-05","source":"https://pti.ao/governo-apresenta-proposta-de-lei-sobre-inteligencia-artificial/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Angola","role":"Radiologists, surgeons, medical imaging technicians","org":"Ministry of Health (MINSA)","text":"AI in hospital care now runs at 14 central hospitals across Angola, covering diagnostic imaging, clinical analysis, surgery and personalised medical training, the Ministry of Health confirms. Leonardo Inocêncio, Secretary of State for the Hospital Area, links this to fewer clinical errors and sharper accuracy from AI-assisted diagnostic imaging. Some 38 thousand health workers are gaining digital skills to run the new equipment.","date":"2025-07","source":"https://pti.ao/minsa-14-hospitais-do-nivel-central-ja-integram-sistemas-de-ia/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Angola","org":"Agência de Protecção de Dados (APD)","text":"A new artificial intelligence chapter sits inside Angola's revised data protection law, Lei n.º 22/11, following public consultation by the Agência de Protecção de Dados (APD) that ended in April 2025. Under this Angola AI regulation, Article 36 outlaws algorithmic social scoring, Article 37 lets anyone harmed by an AI system demand explanation, dispute the outcome and seek human review, and Article 38 makes producers, suppliers and operators liable, all part of the country's artificial intelligence data protection law reforms. Extraterritorial reach also widens, catching foreign processors handling data tied to people inside the country.","date":"2025-04","source":"https://revista.cazosadvogados.com/pt/governacao-digital-ia"}]}