Key highlights: 

• Growing Awareness of the AI Technology 

• Cheap, open-source Free-to-use AI technologies Helpful 

• Several African Governments and Organizations Eager to Implement AI 

Rising awareness and cheap, AI-pitched technologies placed them on African governments and businessmen’s watch-lists who envision creating local solutions to better improve education. 

With rising awareness of low-cost tools pitched with artificial intelligence, Africa’s schools placed themselves under Africa’s governments’ and entrepreneurs’ watch-list because they have set ambitions to craft in-house innovation addressing local anxieties over matters of education. While millions are simply enjoying the facility to save time by transforming raw data into essays, exam answers or, with a bit more work, even videos and podcasts, as governments and legislators grope to get their heads around the implications of this powerful technology and work out how to bring in regulations for its safe use, end. 

Even in Africa, where it is estimated that 570 million have no electricity to turn on even an internet router, there still exists eagerness for what AI may deliver. Take the DRC, where the country’s deep divisions-far more extreme than those described for South Sudan-result from years of internal conflict, poverty, and vast inequality. Innovators here are finally feeling the burn of AI. 

It is really obvious that the country is quite behind in all new technology because of one or another reason, says Benjamin Sivanzire, a school teacher in the town of Beni, the North Kivu Province, adding, many parts of DRC do not even have its traditional methods of communication, either radio or even television. 

But where Mr Sivanzire and his students look in vain as yet for answers from AI when it comes to homework, there is no other way to get a feel of how the thing lives through itself all around culture—often how wrongs would make themselves right with the aid of a lie in reshaping public opinion. 

According to the teacher, however, the most important lesson learned from him is to teach people what facts and lies are. “There are propaganda videos created by artificial intelligence that show images that are not real and have only been created for propaganda purposes,” he explains further.