{"name":"Applied AI in Cote d'Ivoire — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Cote d'Ivoire, 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/cote-d-ivoire","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":"Cote d'Ivoire","slug":"cote-d-ivoire","iso2":"CI","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":12,"deployments":6,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":3,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":12},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire","text":"The National Assembly of Côte d'Ivoire ran AI training for MPs, led by speaker Patrick Achi with minister Djibril Ouattara and Ghita Mezzour, a former Moroccan digital minister. Achi sees the tools speeding dossier analysis and scrutiny of ministers, while elected members keep political calls. Aya, a WhatsApp bot answering in Baoulé and Malinké, showcased parliamentary AI use.","date":"2026-10-12","source":"https://www.koaci.com/article/2026/10/12/cote-divoire/politique/cote-divoire-assemblee-nationale-patrick-achi-ouvre-la-voie-a-lintelligence-artificielle-dans-le-travail-parlementaire_201534.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"Health worker","org":"Ministry of Health (Côte d'Ivoire)","text":"Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Health will widen AI health logistics from one Zipline hub at Daloa to ten, following government sign-off on an eight-year public-private partnership. Planners expect 2,200-plus clinics and upwards of 12 million residents to be reached once complete. The US State Department puts up US$150 million, paid for performance, towards construction; the treasury meets running costs of this drone-based medicine distribution.","date":"2026-09-22","source":"https://thecondia.com/cote-divoire-zipline-150-million-expansion/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"Ministry of Technical Education (Côte d'Ivoire)","text":"Minister Jean-Louis Moulot rolled out AI training for teachers in Côte d'Ivoire's technical and vocational schools, aiming at 3,000 staff via a UNESCO co-designed scheme. A first cohort of 1,000 trials it from 1 October to 30 December 2026, practising classroom AI skills: lesson planning, worksheets and marking.","date":"2026-09-18","source":"https://www.sikafinance.com/marches/cote-divoire-le-gouvernement-lance-la-formation-a-lia-de-3-000-professeurs-de-l-enseignement-technique_64367"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"Government of Côte d'Ivoire","text":"Minister Djibril Ouattara presented the Plan d'accélération 2026–2028 as Impact IA's second edition got under way in Abidjan, placing national AI policy centre stage. The 40 priority schemes hang on seven pillars, one pledging a home-built artificial intelligence for citizens' wellbeing. Broadband, e-government, innovation, cybersecurity, digital skills and postal e-commerce fill out this state AI programme.","date":"2026-09-11","source":"https://www.alwihdainfo.com/cote-divoire-transition-numerique-les-sept-piliers-du-plan-dacceleration-2026-2028-devoiles/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"Société Nationale de Développement Informatique (SNDI)","text":"SNDI delivered AI training for civil servants across 35 agencies in Côte d'Ivoire's Hambol region, handing certificates to 192 participants after a five-week course backed by the Ministry of Digital Transition and Technological Innovation. Curriculum topics ranged from artificial intelligence fundamentals through basic computing, web browsing and office applications, spanning 22 June to 29 July 2026. Katiola hosted the closing event marking completion, extending digital skills for government workers outside the capital.","date":"2026-07-29","source":"https://www.aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-la-sndi-dote-192-agents-publics-de-competences-en-informatique-et-en-intelligence-artificielle-dans-le-hambol/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"District clinician treating childhood TB","org":"Côte d'Ivoire National Tuberculosis Programme (PNLT)","text":"Côte d'Ivoire's National Tuberculosis Programme and research partner PAC-CI began trialling eHealth4Child-TB in Sassandra on 16 June 2026, bringing AI chest X-ray reading to childhood tuberculosis care. Health workers get AI-analysed radiography plus treatment decision-support algorithms, now spreading across the Abengourou, Agboville and Sassandra health districts.","date":"2026-06-16","source":"https://www.aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-un-outil-numerique-innovant-experimente-a-sassandra-pour-la-lutte-contre-la-tuberculose/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"Citizen-services officer","org":"Government of Côte d'Ivoire","text":"The Ivorian government has launched EMY 101, an AI government chatbot on WhatsApp and Messenger that explains state policy and official formalities, from civil registration to tax. Users can also voice worries, flag alerts and find the correct public-service contact through the citizen assistant, supported by the free 101 line.","date":"2026-03","source":"https://www.wearetech.africa/fr/fils/actualites/tech/la-cote-d-ivoire-lance-emy-101-un-chatbot-pour-rapprocher-l-administration-des-citoyens"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"Assemblée nationale de Côte d'Ivoire (National Assembly)","text":"24 bills reached Côte d'Ivoire's National Assembly at the start of its ordinary session, and artificial intelligence legislation stands out among them. Officials frame the draft Côte d'Ivoire AI regulation as a way to align law with emerging digital challenges under an AI legal framework, while advancing the nation's ambition to become a regional tech hub. Parliament has yet to approve the text, leaving it pending further debate.","date":"2026-01-19","source":"https://www.yessouan.ci/Ouverture-de-la-session-2026-de-l-Assemblee-nationale-de-Cote-d-Ivoire-24-projets-de-loi-deja-sur-la-table_a6671.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Media, Telecom & Entertainment","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"TV producer","org":"Radiodiffusion Télévision Ivoirienne (RTI)","text":"AI in documentary filmmaking reaches African screens via Imhotep Académie, a Cocody school specialising in cultural-heritage tech, teaming with La 3 to resurrect colonial-era Ivorian musicians on screen. Their short film, Quand l'Afrique chantait sous la censure, forms episode two of L'Ère des Indépendances, deploying digitally rendered figures for historical narration to chart Côte d'Ivoire's independence-era story.","date":"2025-08-09","source":"https://www.koaci.com/article/2025/08/11/cote-divoire/culture/cote-divoire-culture-quand-lintelligence-artificielle-redonne-voix-a-lhistoire-africaine_189319.html"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"Cardiologist","org":"Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan / African Research Network","text":"300 hypertension patients in Côte d'Ivoire are testing an AI chatbot for hypertension patients called AVIA (Assistant vocal d'intervention automatisée), a voice-based AI health monitoring tool built by Ivorian startup data354 for the Institut de Cardiologie d'Abidjan and the African Research Network. Split into two groups, participants get calls every three weeks so it can track their condition, flag unusual readings to doctors and gauge blood pressure gains over six months. Only a phone line is needed, no internet, suiting patients far from clinics.","date":"2025-05-06","source":"https://www.aip.ci/cote-divoire-aip-une-etude-clinique-basee-sur-un-robot-conversationnel-teste-pour-ameliorer-le-suivi-medical-des-hypertendus-lancee-a-abidjan/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","org":"Ministère de la Transition Numérique et de la Digitalisation (Ministry of Digital Transition and Digitalisation)","text":"Côte d'Ivoire's government adopted a national AI policy, SNIA 2030, resting on skills and infrastructure, regional and social inclusion, and ethical governance. It creates a National AI Committee, Safe IA label, National AI Agency (ANIA) and AI Hub, prioritising agriculture, health and education. This AI strategy sets out structures, not funding.","date":"2025-03-13","source":"https://digitalmag.ci/cote-divoire-le-ministre-kalil-konate-annonce-la-construction-dun-hub-ia-a-bingerville/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Cote d'Ivoire","role":"Magistrates, court officials","org":"Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Côte d'Ivoire","text":"Côte d'Ivoire's Ministry of Justice and Human Rights has rolled out e-justice, an AI court document processing platform, piloted in Yopougon and Dabou. Nationality certificates, criminal records and other files gain secure digital storage; magistrates can batch-sign up to a thousand at once. It marks early movement toward digital justice administration, confined for now to the trial sites.","date":"2025-01-30","source":"https://abidjan24.info/aip-deux-ministres-a-divo-pour-une-double-ceremonie-marquant-une-amelioration-de-la-modernisation-du-systeme-judiciaire-de-la-cote-divoire/"}]}