{"name":"Applied AI in Cabo Verde — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Cabo Verde, 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/cabo-verde","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":"Cabo Verde","slug":"cabo-verde","iso2":"CV","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":4,"deployments":2,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":1,"regulation":1,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":4},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cabo Verde","role":"Nurse","org":"Sociedade Médica Cabo-verdiana Americana (CVAMS)","text":"Sociedade Médica Cabo-verdiana Americana, CVAMS, has run the Continuidade project in Cabo Verde for six years, and AI diagnosis in Ophthalmology now enables nurses, not doctors, to pin down cataracts, glaucoma and retinopathy. Cloud-linked machines generate automatic diagnoses, aimed at Oncology and Cardiology, the specialities where local capacity is thinnest, under surgeon Júlio Tavares. The current mission, 10 to 24 September, fields over 70 doctors, surgeons, nurses, psychologists and further health workers drawn from leading United States institutions. CVAMS casts its Artificial Intelligence diagnostic equipment as a weapon against the archipelago's foremost killers; no independent evaluation of accuracy has been published.","date":"2026-09-10","source":"https://www.balai.cv/noticias/missoes-medicas-do-projeto-continuidade-dos-eua-reforcam-saude-em-cabo-verde-com-tecnologia-de-ponta/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Cabo Verde","role":"Voter","org":"Kriol Think","text":"Kriol Think fielded 802 queries over a 14-day run at 100% uptime through the AI electoral assistant Nós AI Eleitor 2026, built by Edson da Veiga for Cabo Verde's legislative elections. Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 drafted every reply strictly from the parties' own electoral programmes, three loaded, MpD, PAICV and UCID, while PTS and PP awaited release, and each response pinpointed the underlying passages. Guardrails barred political views, party endorsements and fabricated material, obliged the assistant to concede gaps, and excluded identifiable personal data, stored query wording and tracking cookies. Unaligned and free, this election AI tool emerged from a non-profit civic venture whose running costs Edson da Veiga chased via GoFundMe; the usage totals are Kriol Think's own, surfacing on an archive page after the ballot.","date":"2026-05-08","source":"https://www.inforpress.cv/pt/projecto-kriol-think-lanca-assistente-de-ia-para-comparar-programas-eleitorais"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cabo Verde","org":"Government of Cabo Verde","text":"Cabo Verde AI policy now runs through Resolution No. 72/2026, which the Government cleared via the Council of Ministers to lay out Agenda Digital 2035 as the country's blueprint for weaving AI, data-driven industry and automation into state functions. The resolution sets eight strategic axes meant to push the archipelago toward becoming a forward-looking, adaptable digital nation by 2035, spanning economic growth, e-government, social equity and green sustainability. The broader push for AI-driven digital transformation sits within this wider national plan rather than as a separate initiative.","date":"2026-05-08","source":"https://expressodasilhas.cv/politica/2026/05/08/governo-lanca-agenda-digital-2035-para-acelerar-transformacao-tecnologica-do-pais/102653"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cabo Verde","org":"Ministry of Justice of Cabo Verde","text":"226 legal staff nationwide began AI training for justice professionals in Cabo Verde, an AI training programme for the judiciary organised by IMIJ under the Ministry of Justice. Concluding 3 October, sessions cover core AI concepts and practical courtroom applications, backed by UNDP alongside the Directorate-General for Justice Policy. Delegates arrived from every island.","date":"2025-09-22","source":"https://expressodasilhas.cv/pais/2025/09/22/226-profissionais-da-justica-iniciam-formacao-em-inteligencia-artificial/99103"}]}