The record holds 5 entries from Burundi, across 5 industries, led by Agriculture & Food, then Government & Public Sector. Last updated 14 Sep 2026.
Burundi3 Jun 2025Hyphen Tech — Hyphen Tech's AI crop disease detection tool AgriHyphen, trialled by Ngozi province growers, spots 37 ailments across seven staple crops from leaf photos, working in Kirundi, Swahili, French and English. Running since November 2024, the prototype earned praise for accurate readings, signalling agricultural AI adoption in Burundi.
Burundi24 Apr 2026Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy / UNDP — Burundi's Ministry of Finance, Budget and Digital Economy, with the United Nations Development Programme, cleared the Stratégie nationale de l'intelligence artificielle, or SNIA, on 21 and 22 April 2026. Six pillars carry the Burundi AI policy: public leadership, data plumbing, schooling, invention, high-impact uses, ethics, inclusion. The national AI roadmap promises 1000-plus state employees trained, fifteen trial schemes in agriculture and health, incubators at Bujumbura, Ngozi and Gitega, and by 2030 a driver of fair growth and youth work.
Burundi1 Apr 2026Audere — Burundi's Cibitoke and Kirundo health districts began running Audere's Malariya Pi in August 2025, an AI malaria diagnostic tool built on the firm's HealthPulse AI engine. Frontline staff — from village-level workers through clinic personnel to lab technicians — rely on it to interpret rapid diagnostic tests for malaria, log patient histories and treatment progress, then escalate difficult cases upward to hospital care. The name itself means "bye bye malaria" in Kirundi, this AI-powered malaria case management app's semantic nod to its public health mission.
Burundi20 Jun 2026KoBold Metals — KoBold Metals has started AI mineral exploration over Burundi's geoscientific archives, a three-year job commissioned on 12 March 2026 and paid for by the firm. Holdings from national services and the Royal Museum for Central Africa are going digital, targeting scandium, nickel, copper, cobalt and platinum group metals. The government keeps ownership, local technicians are in training, and some material was due on the web by July 2026, with machine-learning prospecting sifting the files.
Burundi6 Oct 2025Hyphen Tech — Hyphen Tech's Cosebu Ecosystem opens an AI marketplace Burundi traders can use, debuting at the firm's Bujumbura hub. Merchants gain Cosebu Management AI, covering inventory, sales tracking and financial reporting, plus Cosebu Marketplace AI, powering discovery through AI recommendations. Kirundi, French and English speakers are served by this AI-driven commerce platform, built to draw Burundian youth into digital trade.
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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