Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to be a game changer for economic development and the achievement of the SDGs. By mapping out AI initiatives in Uganda and the financial and talent ecosystem around them, this database shines a light on AI use cases in Uganda and provides a snapshot of the state of the art of the emerging Ugandan AI ecosystem.

Sustainable Development Goals

The 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) form the United Nation’s global sustainability agenda for 2030. Artificial Intelligence initiatives in Uganda contribute to the achievement of these goals in many ways. The graph below displays how AI use cases in Uganda relate to the 17 SDGs.

Type of initiative

AI use cases emerge from an interconnected ecosystem of product, research, capacity building and funding organisations. The graph below displays the different entities that make up Uganda’s AI ecosystem.

Mapping the structure of Uganda’s AI ecosystem

Visualising interconnection is a way of bringing to life the texture of a network. By showing how the different entities in Uganda’s AI landscape are connected the graph below visualises the ecosystem’s partnership structure.

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