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Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso24 Sep 2026
Burkina Faso trains ministry secretaries general on AI
Ministère de la Transition Digitale du Burkina Faso — Every ministry in Burkina Faso sent its secretary general to Ouagadougou for a two-day programme in AI training for government officials, run by the Ministry of Digital Transformation. Sessions spanned generative tools, data protection and best practice, strengthening departmental AI oversight and embedding AI literacy in public administration at the senior level.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso24 Sep 2026
Burkina Faso trains its ministries' secretaries-general in AI use
Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications (Burkina Faso) — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications put secretaries-general from ministries and institutions through two days of AI training for senior civil servants in Ouagadougou. Rodrigue Kafando taught today's tools, generative AI and sound habits after chief of staff Abdoulaye Mamboné opened proceedings. Shielding administrative data from outside exploitation topped the dangers flagged for government AI use.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso15 Sep 2026
UEMOA Commission presents its draft regional AI strategy
UEMOA Commission — The West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) Commission showed member-state journalists a draft regional AI strategy in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, at a 14 to 18 September 2026 session. The draft targets one ethical, inclusive and harmonised normative, regulatory and institutional AI governance framework, plus local skills, research and IT infrastructure.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso3 Aug 2026
Health ministry trains 72 administrative secretaries in AI
Ministère de la Santé du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Health delivered AI training for administrative secretaries to 72 headquarters and regional health directorate staff on 3–7 August 2026. Content spanned Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, advanced Excel and Word functions for drafting, filing and reporting, data security and AI ethics. The ministry's IT experts delivered the AI upskilling.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso15 Jul 2026
Burkina Faso trains its National Assembly deputies on AI
Assemblée législative du Peuple du Burkina Faso — Roughly 30 lawmakers from Burkina Faso's National Assembly gained grounding in artificial intelligence during a joint session staged by the Legislative Assembly of the People with the Permanent Secretariat for Innovation and Forecasting on Emerging Digital Technologies (SPIVTEN) in Ouagadougou. Organisers designed the AI legislation training to sharpen deputies' capacity to comprehend, draft rules for and monitor emerging systems, an area officials have elevated to the 11th pillar within the nation's broader digital transformation agenda, closely tied to artificial intelligence oversight training goals.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso13 Jul 2026
Primature trains senior managers in ethical AI use
Primature du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Prime Minister's Office put senior managers through ethical AI training in Ouagadougou, under the banner 'Management tools for ethical and responsible AI'. Chief of staff Mamadou Dembélé launched the two-day workshop, expanding on instruction previously delivered to rank-and-file staff. Participants rehearsed crafting safe AI prompts that protect sensitive information and detecting bias within AI-generated results, reflecting a broader push toward responsible AI use in government.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso6 Jul 2026
Burkina Faso adopts ethical AI guidelines with five Francophone peers
Government of Burkina Faso — Six West African states—Burkina Faso, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Mali, Guinea and Benin—now share a common Burkina Faso AI policy: Guidelines for Ethical, Inclusive and Responsible Artificial Intelligence, lodged with the UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance. It demands accountable, transparent, sovereign, inclusive systems reflecting local languages and African realities.
RegulationGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso17 Jun 2026
Feuille de route nationale sur l'intelligence artificielle 2026-2030
Ministère de la Transition digitale, des Postes et des Communications électroniques — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition, Posts and Electronic Communications, through SP-IVTEN, finalised a national AI roadmap covering 2026-2030. Six focus areas structure the plan: oversight, infrastructure, safeguarding information, skills-building, entrepreneurial research, and fair, inclusive deployment. The strategy links to RELANCE 2026-2030 and the 'AI for All' scheme, embedding AI policy in broader growth ambitions.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso2026-05
Burkina Faso Prime Minister's Office trains staff in AI
Primature du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Prime Minister's Office ran three-day AI training for public servants from its Ouagadougou central structures, 19 to 21 May 2026. Artificial intelligence's promise and dangers for state administration framed the course, in which volunteer Oumar Karaga, a Google Canada senior software engineer, taught civil service staff data analysis, AI fundamentals, digital writing tools and generative content's legal and ethical questions.
Evidence of adoptionGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso16 Apr 2026
Cabinet directors of Burkina Faso ministries trained in AI
Ministère de la Transition Digitale du Burkina Faso — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Digital Transition delivered AI training for government workers to cabinet directors across all ministries and public institutions on 16 April 2026 in Ouagadougou. Minister Aminata Zerbo/Sabané and the President's chief of staff launched the single-day session, which covered core AI concepts, applying artificial intelligence within cabinet duties, sovereignty over digital systems, and managing associated risks. Officials frame the workshop, built around artificial intelligence instruction, as the opening step of a larger civil service training push.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso2026-04
Burkina Faso government deploys AI voice translation in Mooré on public platform
Government of Burkina Faso (via CITADEL) — CITADEL researchers built the AI voice translation Mooré tool now live on Burkina-en-marche.gov.bf, delivering spoken health and education content rather than written text. Converted French speech hits a 4.24% word error rate, a standard 77.8% of tested native speakers accepted. This French-to-Mooré speech translation reaches those who never learned letters.
DeploymentGovernment & Public SectorBurkina Faso7 Apr 2026
Burkina Faso tickets drivers with AI cameras in Ouagadougou
Burkina Faso Ministry of Security — Burkina Faso's Ministry of Security started a nationwide video-ticketing trial in Ouagadougou on 7 April 2026, with high-definition AI traffic cameras spotting red-light, seatbelt, phone and speeding offences. Each flagged vehicle's owner gets an SMS with a link to pay; camera-based enforcement was scheduled to run fully from 1 August 2026.
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Every entry on this page is a named organisation putting AI to work in a real job, taken from the State of Applied AI record. Each one is traced to the report it came from and dated, and where a figure is the organisation’s own the entry says so rather than presenting it as an independent result. Readiness, ecosystem and policy figures, where shown, are attributed on the card to the body that published them.
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