{"name":"Applied AI in Madagascar — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Madagascar, 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/madagascar","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":"Madagascar","slug":"madagascar","iso2":"MG","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":8,"deployments":3,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":3,"regulation":2,"industries":2,"countries":1,"linked":8},"entries":[{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","role":"Magistrate","org":"Conseil d'État (Madagascar)","text":"Madagascar's Conseil d'État has given every magistrate an anonymiser that deletes litigants' personal details from case files before any AI in courts tool sees them, shown at a Supreme Court AI workshop on 15 and 16 October 2026. Conseil d'État president Andry Rabarisoa and AI specialist Andy Marlon Bourgeon wrote it without public funding. A judicial AI course run with ENMG, the national magistrates' and clerks' school, follows.","date":"2026-10-17","source":"https://www.2424.mg/justice-un-logiciel-danonymisation-pour-permettre-aux-magistrats-dutiliser-lia-sans-exposer-les-donnees-des-justiciables"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","org":"Direction Générale du Trésor (Madagascar)","text":"Madagascar's Public Treasury head, Director General Mbinison Dorette Ratsiavahana, and several colleagues took AI training for Treasury officials from the Pôles Intégrés de Croissance (PIC) project. Lessons spanned AI-assisted writing, research, summaries, document review, prompting, LLM basics and vetting machine answers under confidentiality and control rules: public-sector AI skills.","date":"2026-09-14","source":"https://www.madagascarnewsroom.com/2026/09/tresor-public-formation-ia.html"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","org":"Conseil d'État Malagasy","text":"Madagascar's Conseil d'État Malagasy and 85 magistrates adopted an Ethical Charter for AI use in courts at a UNESCO seminar on artificial intelligence and the rule of law in Antananarivo. It sets out permitted and forbidden applications for AI in judicial decision-making by magistrates, closing a gap left by prior unguided use, and rests on the magistrates' code of ethics.","date":"2026-06","source":"https://www.unesco.org/fr/articles/les-juges-malgaches-adoptent-une-charte-ethique-pour-encadrer-lutilisation-de-lia-devant-les"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","org":"Government of Madagascar (National Gendarmerie and Police)","text":"Thirty Madagascar officers completed a regional course covering AI child protection tools under UNICRI's AI for Safer Children scheme, delivered alongside the UAE Ministry of Interior and the UN Office on Drugs and Crime. The Antananarivo programme, spread across three days, built skills in flagging abuse reports, connecting evidence trails and managing digital exhibits through AI-assisted investigation techniques, backed by practical exercises. A further 140-plus investigators from 16 additional nations followed remotely.","date":"2026-05","source":"https://unicri.org/news/Unicri-delivers-regional-training-AI-related-technologies-law-enforcement-Madagascar-and-16-countries-across-Africa-May-2026"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","org":"Government of Madagascar","text":"Madagascar's Government has opened ASAN'AI, a free 15-month AI digital skills training scheme for 1,300 young Malagasy. Delivered with the World Bank and private firms Intelcia, Konecta, Connecteo and Concentrix, this AI skills programme builds capacity for high-demand roles in business process outsourcing, including augmented customer experience work. A first batch of 280 trainees began placement from month three.","date":"2026-01-23","source":"https://techafricanews.com/2026/01/29/madagascar-launches-free-15-month-training-program-for-1300-youth-in-digital-sector/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Education & Training","region":"Madagascar","role":"Primary school teachers","org":"FHI 360","text":"FHI 360 piloted an AI chatbot for teacher training with 16 primary school instructors and instructional leaders in Madagascar's Atsimo-Atsinanana region under its FIANTSO project, a three-week trial in January. This AI teacher-training assistant answers pedagogy questions in Malagasy, including regional dialects, using Ministry of Education-validated materials. Feedback was strong: 70% rated it very useful, and 80% said it was simple to use.","date":"2026-01","source":"https://www.fhi360.org/articles/new-ai-chatbot-aims-to-boost-teacher-pedagogical-support/"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","role":"Customs officer","org":"Direction Générale des Douanes de Madagascar","text":"Agent SVO hunts fraudulent invoices at Madagascar's customs authority, built by its Centre d'Excellence des Données et de l'Intelligence Artificielle (CEDIA) as a generative AI invoice fraud detection tool. It flags tampered figures and forgeries automatically, sharpening checks while adding speed via automated document verification.","date":"2025-10-07","source":"https://www.douanes.gov.mg/lagent-svo-deploye-la-douane-franchit-une-nouvelle-etape/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Madagascar","org":"Direction Générale des Douanes","text":"Madagascar now has CEDIA, the Centre d'Excellence des Données et de l'Intelligence Artificielle, its first unit for AI in customs administration. It will oversee governance rules, drive uptake nationwide, and craft tools like Agent SVO, a generative helper for AI-driven fraud detection on questionable receipts.","date":"2025-05-15","source":"https://www.gasigasy.mg/economie/madagascar-inaugure-son-tout-premier-centre-dexcellence-des-donnees-et-de-lintelligence-artificielle/"}]}