{"name":"Applied AI in the Gambia — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for the Gambia, 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/gambia","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":"Gambia","slug":"gambia","iso2":"GM","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":5,"deployments":5,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":0,"regulation":0,"industries":2,"countries":1,"linked":5},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Gambia","role":"Teacher","org":"American International University West Africa","text":"Gambia now hosts a female AI-powered robot for STEM education, built by American International University West Africa for schools short on science and maths staff. Dr Shukla, university president, called it a machine that answers instantly and behaves naturally with those it meets, an AI robot in science and maths classrooms rather than a stand-in for scarce teachers. Maker Labs supplied the software and AI layer; engineers in Bangalore, India built the physical frame.","date":"2026-07-30","source":"https://www.voicegambia.com/aiuwa-launches-ai-powered-female-robot-to-boost-stem-education-in-the-gambia/?noamp=mobile"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Gambia","role":"Secondary school students, teachers","org":"CUBE The Gambia","text":"CUBE The Gambia is piloting its home-built CUBE AI Tutor on 150 secondary pupils across three Region 1 schools, trialling AI tutoring in Gambian classrooms: St Augustine's Senior Secondary School, St Joseph's Senior Secondary School and Charles Jow Memorial Academy. The offline-ready, curriculum-matched tool, an AI learning platform for secondary students, adds speech-to-text and text-to-speech. Pupils trial it for two months, then give feedback.","date":"2026-04-30","source":"https://thepoint.gm/africa/gambia/national-news/cube-launches-pilot-ai-learning-tool-in-gambian-secondary-schools"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Gambia","role":"Communications professionals, media monitors","org":"Government of The Gambia","text":"The Government of The Gambia has commissioned the National Misinformation and Disinformation Response Centre, an AI-powered misinformation detection platform under the Ministry of Information that scans online conversations, spots emerging false-content trends and verifies claims against trusted sources, functioning as an AI-driven disinformation monitoring hub. Officials call it West Africa's first such centre, built by Gambian firm Dundal Systems with ECOWAS backing and unveiled at the Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre.","date":"2026-04-27","source":"https://www.grts.gm/new-site/public/index.php/news-article-details/news/gambia-launches-west-africas-first-ai-centre-to-fight-fake-news"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Gambia","role":"Mathematics teacher","org":"Rising Academies","text":"An AI maths tutor called Rori now reaches Grade 7 pupils at Madiana Basic Cycle School via WhatsApp, under a six-month Rising Academies scheme. The Ministry of Education's Regional 2 West Education Directorate co-runs it, sending each child individualised numeracy exercises by phone message.","date":"2025-10-20","source":"https://www.risingacademies.com/risingnews/rori-pilot-begins-in-the-gambia"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Gambia","role":"University administrators","org":"Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST)","text":"Gambia's Ministry of Higher Education, Research, Science and Technology (MoHERST) rolled out TITA, an AI timetable app for Gambian universities that builds class schedules automatically. Nigerian firm TITA Universal Services Ltd built the mobile platform, which also handles course registration, tuition payments, CGPA tracking and assignment submissions at public universities nationwide, centralising tasks once split across separate manual systems via an automatic timetable generator.","date":"2025-04-24","source":"https://www.askanwi.com/news/gambias-higher-education-goes-digital-with-launch-of-tita-mobile-app"}]}