{"name":"Applied AI in Sudan — the record","description":"Every announced initiative, deployment, published result and regulation of applied AI on the record for Sudan, 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/sudan","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":"Sudan","slug":"sudan","iso2":"SD","region":"Middle East & North Africa"},"counts":{"entries":5,"deployments":1,"evidenceImpact":0,"evidenceAdoption":2,"regulation":2,"industries":3,"countries":1,"linked":5},"entries":[{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Sudan","org":"Ministry of Justice and Ministry of Digital Transformation and Telecommunications","text":"Sudan's Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Digital Transformation and Telecommunications are preparing the Draft Law on Regulating Data and Artificial Intelligence for 2026, part of broader Sudan AI regulation to match fast technological change. Undersecretary Mawlana Ali Khidr revealed the AI governance legislation at a workshop on workplace AI use, calling it the legal basis needed to oversee AI adoption across government and business.","date":"2026-08-10","source":"https://www.sudanakhbar.com/1824468"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Sudan","org":"Ministry of Finance of Sudan","text":"Sudan's Ministry of Finance has begun AI training for civil servants, extending a new machine intelligence and digital transformation curriculum for public-sector roles to staff of the ministry plus the Audit Chamber, Internal Audit Department and Court Authority. Dr Mohamed Ali Jumaa launched the effort, framing it as a leap forward for institutions in the economic sector, with lessons oriented toward hands-on use across government work.","date":"2026-07-26","source":"https://khartoumchannel.net/2026/07/26/%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%AA%D8%AF%D8%B4%D9%86-%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%AC-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B0%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%B5%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A7%D8%B9%D9%8A/"},{"kind":"evidence-adoption","industry":"Healthcare & Life Sciences","region":"Sudan","org":"Sudan Medical Specialization Board","text":"AI adoption among surgeons in Sudan stays notional: of 185 surgery residents and specialists canvassed, 68.7% recognised artificial intelligence, 9.4% applied such tools on patients, 10.3% attained advanced literacy, 22.3% were formally schooled. Blockers: frail infrastructure 87.6%, absent tuition 79.1%, cost 72.4%; amid fighting, 92.5% lacked kit and 78.3% steady power or internet. Wanted clinical AI use: teaching 68.2%, perioperative decision-making 65.4%. Fieldwork spanned October 2024–June 2025, plus 20 interviews, at Khartoum's Department of General Surgery, Sudan Medical Specialization Board.","date":"2026-02-15","source":"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12937154/"},{"kind":"regulation","industry":"Government & Public Sector","region":"Sudan","org":"Government of Sudan","text":"Three new agencies now sit under Sudan's Ministry of Digital Transformation and Communications, following a 5 November 2025 decree from Prime Minister Kamil Idris that set up the Sudanese Data and Artificial Intelligence Authority alongside two sister bodies. Handling this Sudan AI regulation brief means the authority oversees how national data is managed and governed, while pushing government agencies toward using AI for decisions and building public services. It functions as the state's central AI governance authority, though details on the other two agencies are not covered here.","date":"2025-11-05","source":"https://www.ecofinagency.com/news-digital/0711-50239-sudan-lays-groundwork-for-digital-state-with-cybersecurity-ai-data-bodies"},{"kind":"deployment","industry":"Communications","region":"Sudan","role":"Humanitarian information officer","org":"CDAC Network","text":"Sudan's information war now has an algorithmic watchdog: CDAC Network and Valent trained an AI disinformation detection system exposing fake networks and coordinated online manipulation. Results reach humanitarian responders in Arabic and English, sharpening decisions amid Sudan's conflict via this AI-driven narrative manipulation monitoring effort.","date":"2025-08","source":"https://www.cdacnetwork.org/news/strengthening-sudan-information-environment-ai"}]}