{"name":"Applied AI in Niger — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Niger, 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/niger","partOf":"https://www.straitsai.institute/state-of-applied-ai/evidence.json","attribution":"Industrial Research Unit, Straits Institute for Applied AI","updated":"2026-09-28","facet":{"kind":"country","name":"Niger","slug":"niger","iso2":"NE","region":"Sub-Saharan Africa"},"counts":{"entries":4,"deployments":0,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":2,"industries":1,"countries":1,"linked":4},"entries":[{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Niger","org":"Direction Générale des Douanes du Niger","text":"Niger's customs authority enrolled 30 officers in AI for customs revenue mobilisation, a fortnight course sharpening fraud detection and irregular-pattern flagging. Predictive algorithms now guide targeted inspections as the Direction Générale des Douanes pivots toward algorithm-driven tax collection.","date":"2026-09-01","source":"https://www.journalduniger.com/niamey-douane-ia-mobilisation-recettes-2026/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Niger","org":"Government of Niger and United Nations System in Niger","text":"One hundred (100) officials across Niger's public sector completed applied AI for crisis management coursework in Niamey during a two-week programme in June, organised jointly by the national government and the United Nations System with financial backing from the UN Trust Fund for Human Security. Representatives came from bodies including the High Authority for Peacebuilding, the Ministry of Interior and the National Institute of Statistics, gaining hands-on practice in artificial intelligence in emergency response through exercises in analysing datasets, compiling written reports and managing rapid-onset incidents. Branded ILLIMI Niger, the scheme sits within a broader push to build technical capacity inside government agencies.","date":"2026-06-15","source":"https://illimi-niger.com/illimi-niger-100-professionnels-formes-pour-mettre-lintelligence-artificielle-au-service-de-la-paix-de-la-resilience-et-du-developpement/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Niger","org":"Government of Niger","text":"President Abdourahamane Tiani's Décret n° 2026-310/PRN/PM abolishes nine public bodies, among them the Haute Autorité de Protection des Données à caractère Personnel (HAPDP). HAPDP enforced Niger AI regulation, namely Loi 2022-59's automated-decision and AI rules. Its data protection duties pass to the Ministries of Justice and Interior.","date":"2026-06-12","source":"https://www.journalduniger.com/niger-reforme-etat-dissolution-neuf-organismes-publics-decret-tiani/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Niger","org":"Parliament of Niger (Assemblée Nationale)","text":"Niger's Loi n° 2022-59, Article 52, sets AI regulation Niger relies on for automated decisions: judicial rulings cannot rest on automated processing assessing personality traits, and administrative or private-sector decisions cannot rest solely on automated profiling. Where a system qualifies as artificial intelligence, its criteria and personal data used must be disclosed at collection. President Mohamed Bazoum promulgated the statute, alongside Burkina Faso's as Africa's only explicit AI clause in data-protection law.","date":"2022-12-16","source":"https://ailawradar.com/jurisdictions/niger"}]}