Country Profile on AI Governance: Senegal

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.70 · all 54 states mean 1.76.

10 indicators: 7 evidence found, 0 confirmed absence, 3 not determined.

1. S1.1

   National AI strategy existence

   ●Evidence found

   Adopted: The 'Strategie nationale et feuille de route du Senegal sur l'Intelligence Artificielle' (MCTEN) was published in 2023, with implementation started in 2024 according to OECD.AI. Implementation steps include a Meta AI-compute partnership (Sep 2024) and a 'Senegal AI Factory' presented in Aug 2026.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab) · capacity4dev.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) · wearetech.africa (opens in a new tab)

2. S1.2

   Strategy adoption date

   ○Not determined

   Formal adoption month not established: AU-EU D4D Hub reported the strategy being unveiled in a 27 Sep 2023 post, while a Sep 2024 report says it was presented in Jan 2024 by then-President Macky Sall. OECD.AI dates publication to 2023.

   Sources capacity4dev.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) · wearetech.africa (opens in a new tab) · oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

3. S1.3

   Political commitment signals

   ●Evidence found

   Institutional action: The strategy was presented by then-President Macky Sall and is steered by the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy (Minister Alioune Sall from 2024). President Faye's New Deal Technologique (launched 24 Feb 2025) commits to integrating AI into an 'administration augmentee'.

   Sources wearetech.africa (opens in a new tab) · africacheck.org (opens in a new tab)

4. S1.4

   Dedicated AI budget allocation

   ●Evidence found

   Multi-year allocation: A Sep 2024 report states 7 billion FCFA (USD 11.9 m) was allocated to the AI strategy over two years (single source, unverified against budget law). The broader New Deal Technologique digital programme is budgeted at 1,105 billion FCFA to 2034.

   Sources wearetech.africa (opens in a new tab) · africacheck.org (opens in a new tab)

5. S1.5

   AU Continental AI Strategy alignment

   ○Not determined

   The 2023 strategy predates the AU Continental AI Strategy (Jul 2024); no alignment assessment found.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

6. S1.6

   Multi-stakeholder consultation

   ●Evidence found

   Formal consultation: The draft went through review phases in Jun-Jul 2023 with AI service providers, consumers, education institutions, funders and government via workshops (Team Europe/D4D support). OECD.AI records expert, stakeholder and public consultations.

   Sources capacity4dev.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) · oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

7. S1.7

   Sector prioritisation

   ●Evidence found

   Generic: Target sectors are agriculture, health, education, digital economy and public sector, with 4 objectives, 6 orientations and 52 actions and a cross-cutting target of training about 90,000 people in data science/AI by 2028. Sector-specific targets were not verified.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

8. S1.8

   Implementation roadmap

   ●Evidence found

   Phased plan: The strategy includes a roadmap with dated elements, e.g. a national AI cluster by end-2025, a national AI research institute, data lake, governance body, ethics committee and regulatory sandboxes, through 2028.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

9. S1.9

   Monitoring and evaluation framework

   ●Evidence found

   Planned: Action plans include evaluation for continuous improvement (D4D Hub, Sep 2023), but OECD.AI records that no evaluation has been conducted and results are not public.

   Sources capacity4dev.europa.eu (opens in a new tab) · oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

10. S1.10

    Strategy review mechanism

    ○Not determined

    Reference to 'continuous improvement' only; no defined review schedule found.

    Sources capacity4dev.europa.eu (opens in a new tab)

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.18 · all 54 states mean 1.32.

10 indicators: 4 evidence found, 0 confirmed absence, 6 not determined.

1. G2.1

   AI-specific legislation

   ○Not determined

   No AI-specific bill or law was identified. On 27 March 2026 a cybersecurity and AI governance expert told APS that Law 2008-12 has become outdated given generative AI and must be modernised.

   Sources fr.allafrica.com (opens in a new tab)

2. G2.2

   Data protection law status

   ●Evidence found

   Enforced with DPA: Law No. 2008-12 of 25 January 2008 on personal data protection is in force and is enforced by the Commission des Donnees Personnelles (CDP). A 2019 replacement bill was published for comment in 2020 but had not progressed, and the 2008 law remained the governing text in March 2026.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab) · fr.allafrica.com (opens in a new tab)

3. G2.3

   DPA AI mandate

   ●Evidence found

   Informal AI engagement: On 8 October 2025 the CDP issued a communique on the use of AI, warning about AI-generated videos and images of public figures circulating on social networks and recalling data protection principles. This is informal engagement; no statutory AI mandate exists under Law 2008-12.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

4. G2.4

   DPA staffing and budget

   ○Not determined

   Published DPA staff count and annual budget were not located in this desk review (October 2026). dataprotection.africa (May 2022) records 11 CDP members with maximum terms of 8 years.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab)

5. G2.5

   AI regulatory body existence

   ○Not determined

   No dedicated AI governance body for Senegal was confirmed in this review.

6. G2.6

   Institutional design model

   ○Not determined

   No source reviewed defines Senegal's regulatory model for AI; the CDP is the only regulator found engaging on AI (October 2025).

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

7. G2.7

   Malabo Convention ratification

   ●Evidence found

   Ratified: The AU official status list dated 02/02/2026 records for Senegal: no separate signature date, ratification/accession on 03/08/2016 and deposit on 16/08/2016. No evidence of a domestic implementation programme specific to the Convention was assessed, so 'Ratified' rather than 'Implementing' is recorded.

   Sources au.int (opens in a new tab) · au.int (2) (opens in a new tab)

8. G2.8

   Enforcement actions taken

   ○Not determined

   No AI-related enforcement action (investigation, fine or order concerning AI or automated processing) was located in this desk review (October 2026); absence is not confirmed because DPA decision registers were not accessible.

9. G2.9

   Extraterritorial provisions

   ●Evidence found

   Partial coverage: dataprotection.africa (May 2022) records that Law 2008-12 applies to foreign entities, excluding data in transit only. Coverage is via data protection law; no AI-specific extraterritorial clause was found.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab)

10. G2.10

    IP framework for AI

    ○Not determined

    No evidence of a review of intellectual property legislation for AI-generated content was located in this desk review (October 2026); IP-specific searches could not be completed, so absence is not confirmed.

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.40 · all 54 states mean 1.51.

10 indicators: 6 evidence found, 1 confirmed absence, 3 not determined.

1. I3.1

   Data center count

   ●Evidence found

   Data Center Map's Africa directory (page undated; accessed 2026-10-06) lists 7 data centre facility(ies) in Senegal, out of 261 listed across 43 African countries. The directory is self-reported by operators and may include some non-colocation facilities.

   Sources datacentermap.com (opens in a new tab)

2. I3.2

   Data center capacity (MW)

   ○Not determined

   Osiris (28 May 2025) reports the state Diamniadio data centre at 1.4 MW and Sonatel's Tier III data centre at 3 halls of 750 kW each (about 2.25 MW). These two facility figures sum to about 3.65 MW but are not a national total; Data Center Map lists 7 facilities.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab) · datacentermap.com (opens in a new tab)

3. I3.3

   Submarine cable landing points

   ●Evidence found

   TeleGeography Submarine Cable Map data (accessed 2026-10-06) lists 1 landing point(s) in Senegal served by at least one in-service international cable (Dakar), carrying 5 distinct international cable systems: 2Africa, ACE, MainOne, SAT-3/WASC, SHARE.

   Sources submarinecablemap.com (opens in a new tab) · submarinecablemap.com (2) (opens in a new tab)

4. I3.4

   International bandwidth (Gbps)

   ○Not determined

   No dated national international-bandwidth figure for Senegal was verified. ITU DataHub (indicator: international bandwidth usage) returned HTTP 403 and robots-disallowed errors on 2026-10-06, and searches of the regulator and press found no usable national figure in this pass.

5. I3.5

   Hyperscaler presence

   ■Confirmed absence

   None: Official region lists checked on 2026-10-06 show no cloud region, availability zone or local/edge zone in Senegal: AWS (Africa region Cape Town only; local zones Johannesburg and Nairobi), Azure (South Africa North/West only), Google Cloud (africa-south1 Johannesburg only), Oracle (Johannesburg and Casablanca live; Kenya coming soon) and Alibaba (no African region). Huawei Cloud's African regions are Johannesburg and Cairo (May 2024), but this rests on press coverage because Huawei's own region page could not be machine-read.

   Sources aws.amazon.com (opens in a new tab) · aws.amazon.com (2) (opens in a new tab) · learn.microsoft.com (opens in a new tab)

6. I3.6

   GPU/HPC access

   ●Evidence found

   National facility: Senegal's national supercomputer (Taouey, 537.6 teraflops, Atos) at Diamniadio was put into service on 11 Mar 2024 under CINERI, the national higher-education and research cyber-infrastructure. In a 5 Jun 2026 interview the CINERI director said it is operational but not at 100%: its GPU cell is intermittently down because of power instability.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab) · osiris.sn (2) (opens in a new tab)

7. I3.7

   Data localisation provisions

   ○Not determined

   Act No. 2008-12 conditions transfers on adequate protection (DLA Piper, accessed 2026-10-06). No explicit in-country storage mandate was verified in this pass.

   Sources dlapiperdataprotection.com (opens in a new tab)

8. I3.8

   Cross-border data flow framework

   ●Evidence found

   Comprehensive: DLA Piper Data Protection Laws of the World (accessed 2026-10-06): Act No. 2008-12 prohibits transfers unless the receiving country provides sufficient protection; members of the francophone association of DPAs (AFAPDP) are deemed adequate and others are assessed case by case, with listed derogations.

   Sources dlapiperdataprotection.com (opens in a new tab)

9. I3.9

   Foreign AI surveillance spending

   ●Evidence found

   IDS/ADRN, Smart City Surveillance in Africa (March 2026), Table 2 puts the total cost of Senegal's safe city project by 2025 at US$167m (about 500 smart cameras, China-supplied). The report quotes the former ADIE director that the first Smart Senegal phase was financed by a US$150m Chinese concessional loan (2019).

   Sources ids.ac.uk (opens in a new tab)

10. I3.10

    Sovereign cloud initiatives

    ●Evidence found

    Operational: Senegal's national data centre at Diamniadio, built by the State IT agency ADIE (now Sénégal Numérique SA), was inaugurated on 22 Jun 2021 to host state data in the name of digital sovereignty (CIO Mag, 23 Jun 2021). Osiris (28 May 2025) reports about 1,000 m2 of technical rooms and 1.4 MW of power.

    Sources cio-mag.com (opens in a new tab) · osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.14 · all 54 states mean 1.20.

10 indicators: 3 evidence found, 0 confirmed absence, 7 not determined.

1. H4.1

   AI researchers per million

   ○Not determined

   No consistent cross-country source of AI-specific researchers per million was found or could be queried for this country as of Oct 2026 (the planned OpenAlex author query was blocked by an API rate limit on 2026-10-06). Context only: UNESCO UIS via World Bank indicator SP.POP.SCIE.RD.P6 reports 572.4 total R&D researchers (all fields, FTE) per million people in 2015; this is not an AI-specific figure.

   Sources api.worldbank.org (opens in a new tab)

2. H4.2

   DPA staff with AI competency

   ○Not determined

   No published source was found on the number of data protection authority staff with demonstrable AI technical skills as of Oct 2026; DPA annual reports were not located within the research budget of this pass.

3. H4.3

   University AI programs

   ○Not determined

   No national count found. OSIRIS (13 Apr 2025) reports that 25 lecturers from UGB, UCAD, UAM, USSEIN, UASZ, UIDT, EPT and others who are 'already engaged in teaching AI' were trained at an AI researcher school under the Sen Hub IA project; this does not establish AI/ML degree programmes.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

4. H4.4

   African-authored AI publications

   ●Evidence found

   CSET Country Activity Tracker (Merged Academic Corpus) via Our World in Data, series 'AI scholarly publications - Field: All', entity Senegal (SEN), reference year 2024: 65 publications (2023: 71). Counts articles with at least one author at an institution in the country, English title/abstract only; dataset last updated 27 Apr 2026. OpenAlex could not be used because the API was rate-limited on 2026-10-06.

   Data note: CSET/OWID AI publications 2022–24: 42, 71, 65.

   Sources ourworldindata.org (opens in a new tab) · ourworldindata.org (2) (opens in a new tab)

5. H4.5

   AI patents filed

   ○Not determined

   No country-level count of AI-related domestic patent filings was retrieved as of Oct 2026. WIPO IP Statistics and national IP office data were not accessible in this pass, and no published AI-patent figure for this country was found.

6. H4.6

   K-12 CS education

   ○Not determined

   Under the Education Digital Strategy 2025-2029, the Ministry of Education launched AI and digital training for teachers on 30 Sep 2025 and distributed computers to science-stream students (Le Soleil). No source states a K-12 computer science curriculum status.

   Sources lesoleil.sn (opens in a new tab)

7. H4.7

   AI workforce training programs

   ●Evidence found

   At scale: The Ministry of National Education launched a national continuing-training programme on AI use for 105,000 teachers and education staff on 30 Sep 2025. It is delivered with the Université numérique Cheikh Hamidou Kane (FORCE-N) and the Mastercard Foundation under the Education Digital Strategy 2025-2029. Scope is the education workforce only.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab) · lesoleil.sn (opens in a new tab)

8. H4.8

   Labour transition policy

   ○Not determined

   No government framework on AI and labour-market transition (adopted, draft or under discussion) was found for this country in the sources opened in this pass (Oct 2026).

9. H4.9

   Informal economy AI assessment

   ○Not determined

   No government assessment of AI's impact on the informal economy was found for this country in the sources opened in this pass (Oct 2026).

10. H4.10

    African language NLP coverage

    ●Evidence found

    Count of domestic non-European languages in Meta NLLB-200/FLORES-200 or Google Translate (Cloud Translation list accessed Oct 2026; Jun 2024 expansion), mapped by the researcher. Supported: Wolof (NLLB wol_Latn; Google, Jun 2024) and Pulaar (partial, via NLLB Nigerian Fulfulde fuv_Latn and Google Fulfulde). Serer, Joola, Mandinka and Soninke are not listed.

    Sources raw.githubusercontent.com (opens in a new tab) · cloud.google.com (opens in a new tab) · blog.google (opens in a new tab)

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.04 · all 54 states mean 1.05.

10 indicators: 3 evidence found, 0 confirmed absence, 7 not determined.

1. N5.1

   AI companies count

   ○Not determined

   TechBehemoths AI-services page for Senegal returned HTTP 403 (Oct 2026); its general Senegal page lists only 2 IT companies across all services, so the directory gives no usable AI count (upper bound 2 is uninformative).

   Sources techbehemoths.com (opens in a new tab) · techbehemoths.com (2) (opens in a new tab)

2. N5.2

   Private AI investment (USD)

   ●Evidence found

   PROXY, not AI-specific: Partech Africa 2025 report (22 Jan 2026) records US$84M in 2025 tech equity funding for Senegal (+137% YoY) across 10 deals. No AI-specific figure published.

   Sources cdn-website.partechpartners.com (opens in a new tab) · partechpartners.com (opens in a new tab)

3. N5.3

   AI incubators/accelerators

   ○Not determined

   No AI-focused incubator or accelerator count established from an opened source in this pass (general tech hubs not counted).

4. N5.4

   Regulatory sandbox (AI)

   ○Not determined

   No fintech or other regulatory sandbox for this country appears in the Open Bank Project Africa sandbox list (updated to early 2026). No AI-specific sandbox was identified; the Datasphere Initiative 2025 inventory found AI-specific sandboxes in Africa still nascent.

   Sources openbankproject.com (opens in a new tab) · thedatasphere.org (opens in a new tab)

5. N5.5

   Government AI procurement

   ○Not determined

   No evidence located on government procurement of AI from domestic developers (no AI-specific procurement rule or preference policy found in sources opened).

6. N5.6

   AI safety evaluation capacity

   ○Not determined

   No AI safety testing or evaluation facility (academic, government or accredited) identified in sources opened.

7. N5.7

   ISO/IEC 42001 adoption

   ●Evidence found

   Aware: Senegal's standards body ASN is an observing (O) member of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 (list dated Oct 2026), the committee that developed ISO/IEC 42001, so the standard is known at standards-body level. No 42001 certification of an organisation in the country and no national adoption was found.

   Sources iso.org (opens in a new tab)

8. N5.8

   Standards body AI competency

   ●Evidence found

   AI working group: ASN is one of 24 observing (O) members of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 42 Artificial intelligence (list dated Oct 2026): it follows AI standardisation but has no voting role. No dedicated national AI technical committee was verified; mapping O-membership to 'AI working group' is a coder judgement.

   Sources iso.org (opens in a new tab)

9. N5.9

   AI risk assessment frameworks

   ○Not determined

   No sector-specific or cross-sector AI risk assessment framework identified in sources opened.

10. N5.10

    University-industry AI partnerships

    ○Not determined

    No formal university-industry AI research partnership identified in sources opened.

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.21 · all 54 states mean 1.26.

10 indicators: 4 evidence found, 1 confirmed absence, 5 not determined.

1. E6.1

   Algorithmic impact assessment

   ○Not determined

   GIRAI 2026 scores Senegal 65.9 on impact assessments based on one framework, the AI Development Strategy (2023), but the strategy is a non-binding policy and Law 2008-12 contains no DPIA duty per DLA Piper (Mar 2026). Whether the strategy's provision amounts to voluntary guidance could not be verified from the strategy text.

   Sources global-index.ai (opens in a new tab) · dlapiperdataprotection.com (opens in a new tab)

2. E6.2

   Bias audit requirements

   ■Confirmed absence

   None: GIRAI 2026 records no framework or initiative on fairness and non-discrimination for Senegal (indicator score 0), and no AI-specific law requiring bias audits was found as of Oct 2026.

   Sources global-index.ai (opens in a new tab)

3. E6.3

   Transparency obligations

   ●Evidence found

   Sector-specific: Law 2008-12 gives a right not to be subject to decisions based solely on automated processing (dataprotection.africa narrative, May 2022), a binding but data-protection-limited safeguard. GIRAI 2026 scores Senegal 63.6 on transparency and explainability based on the AI Development Strategy (2023), a non-binding policy; no AI-specific transparency law was found.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab) · global-index.ai (opens in a new tab)

4. E6.4

   Citizen redress mechanism

   ●Evidence found

   DPA complaint: Law 2008-12 (25 Jan 2008) gives data subjects the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing producing adverse legal effects (dataprotection.africa narrative, May 2022; a WIPO Lex summary places it in Article 48, not verified against the full text), and the Commission des Donnees Personnelles (CDP) handles complaints. dataprotection.africa's summary table contradicts its own narrative by marking the right 'No'.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab) · wipo.int (opens in a new tab) · osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

5. E6.5

   Judicial AI remedy

   ○Not determined

   No court case on algorithms, AI or solely automated decisions was found for Senegal in sources opened as of Oct 2026 (data protection trackers, GIRAI 2026 access-to-redress indicator); ordinary courts have general jurisdiction, but the absence of precedent is not confirmed by an authoritative source.

   Sources dataprotection.africa (opens in a new tab) · global-index.ai (opens in a new tab)

6. E6.6

   AI advisory body diversity

   ○Not determined

   No national AI advisory body for Senegal was located in sources opened as of Oct 2026, so composition and diversity cannot be assessed; absence is not confirmed by an authoritative source.

   Sources global-index.ai (opens in a new tab)

7. E6.7

   Global AI governance participation

   ●Evidence found

   Active member: Senegal is listed among GPAI members on the OECD.AI GPAI page (accessed Oct 2026), the only one of these 18 countries on that list. It also signed the Paris AI Action Summit statement (11 Feb 2025) and endorsed the New Delhi AI Impact Summit Declaration (20 Feb 2026).

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab) · elysee.fr (opens in a new tab) · digitalpolicyalert.org (opens in a new tab)

8. E6.8

   Civil society AI engagement

   ●Evidence found

   Ad hoc consultation: The strategy's four objectives were 'expressed by public, private and associative stakeholders during the collective-intelligence process organised by the MCTEN' (synthesis document quoted by Osiris, Jan 2024). GIRAI 2026 scores Senegal 30 on government mechanisms for CSO inclusion; no formal advisory role was found.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab) · global-index.ai (opens in a new tab)

9. E6.9

   African ethical framework reference

   ○Not determined

   The strategy's guiding lines speak of AI 'exemplary in Africa', 'national and territorial cohesion' and 'ethical, responsible and trustworthy' AI (Osiris, Jan 2024); no reference to Ubuntu or African ethical principles was found, but only the synthesis was reviewed.

   Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

10. E6.10

    Youth participation

    ○Not determined

    The strategy's first guideline makes AI a field of training for young Senegalese and an objective is youth employment (Osiris, Jan 2024), but no formal youth participation mechanism in AI governance was found.

    Sources osiris.sn (opens in a new tab)

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 1.66 · all 54 states mean 1.55.

10 indicators: 6 evidence found, 0 confirmed absence, 4 not determined.

1. R7.1

   AU AI Strategy alignment

   ●Evidence found

   Awareness: Senegal is a signatory of the Africa Declaration on AI (Kigali, 4 April 2025), which in clause 3.6.1 commits signatories to support national AI policies and governance frameworks aligned with the AU Continental AI Strategy; no country-specific formal alignment process was found in sources opened as of Oct 2026.

   Sources c4ir.rw (opens in a new tab)

2. R7.2

   Kigali Declaration endorsement

   ●Evidence found

   Endorsed: Senegal appears on the official signatory list of the Africa Declaration on Artificial Intelligence, done at Kigali on 4 April 2025 (C4IR Rwanda PDF created 5 April 2025; list of AU, Smart Africa and 52 states). No evidence of a national implementation step specifically citing the Declaration was found as of Oct 2026.

   Sources c4ir.rw (opens in a new tab) · aiexpoafrica.com (opens in a new tab)

3. R7.3

   REC AI governance coordination

   ●Evidence found

   Active participant: Senegal is an ECOWAS member (founding 1975). At an ECOWAS Parliament delocalised committee meeting in Dakar (July 2025) on a regional AI legal and educational framework, Senegal's Education Minister proposed a West African Pact on AI use in education; the ECOWAS framework remains at proposal stage.

   Sources gazettengr.com (opens in a new tab) · en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

4. R7.4

   Cross-border AI agreements

   ○Not determined

   No bilateral or multilateral AI governance cooperation agreement involving Senegal was found in sources opened as of Oct 2026; non-binding declarations (Kigali 2025 and, where applicable, Paris 2025 or New Delhi 2026) are recorded under R7.2 and R7.10.

5. R7.5

   Election integrity AI provisions

   ○Not determined

   No legal or institutional provision addressing AI in elections was found for Senegal in sources opened as of Oct 2026.

6. R7.6

   Disinformation response framework

   ○Not determined

   No government framework for responding to AI-generated disinformation was found for Senegal in sources opened as of Oct 2026.

7. R7.7

   AI election incidents documented

   ●Evidence found

   One documented incident: after the March 2024 presidential election, a viral video presented as President Faye was actually 2021 footage of Ousmane Sonko with English audio; a Dec 2024 FNF analysis says fact-checkers verified generative AI was used for the translation, while Africa Check (12 Apr 2024) described it only as voice-dubbed.

   Sources freiheit.org (opens in a new tab) · africacheck.org (opens in a new tab)

8. R7.8

   Platform content moderation

   ○Not determined

   No government engagement with platforms on AI content moderation was found for Senegal in sources opened as of Oct 2026.

9. R7.9

   Geneva Dialogue participation

   ●Evidence found

   Active contributor: Senegal delivered a national statement at the inaugural UN Global Dialogue on AI Governance (Geneva, 6-7 July 2026), per the UN list of statements from Member States and Observers.

   Sources un.org (opens in a new tab) · un.org (2) (opens in a new tab)

10. R7.10

    G20/multilateral AI engagement

    ●Evidence found

    Active participant: Senegal signed the Paris AI Action Summit Statement on Inclusive and Sustainable AI (11 Feb 2025); is among the 87 initial endorsers of the New Delhi AI Impact Summit Declaration (20 Feb 2026); is a member of the Global Partnership on AI (GPAI).

    Sources elysee.fr (opens in a new tab) · digitalpolicyalert.org (opens in a new tab) · en.wikipedia.org (opens in a new tab)

Fellow-assigned pillar score. Indicators not scored. West Africa mean 0.63 · all 54 states mean 0.78.

10 indicators: 1 evidence found, 1 confirmed absence, 8 not determined.

1. M8.1

   AI governance budget disbursed

   ○Not determined

   The New Deal Technologique totals CFA 1,105 bn (~USD 1.7 bn), with CFA 950 bn reported 'secured' (Feb 2025), and the 2026 digital ministry budget is CFA 81.06 bn (~USD 143.9 m, Dec 2025). These are allocations, not disbursements, and no AI-specific line was given. A CFA 59 m AI start-up seed fund was announced in Oct 2024 but not yet disbursed.

   Sources ecofinagency.com (opens in a new tab) · ecofinagency.com (2) (opens in a new tab) · wearetech.africa (opens in a new tab)

2. M8.2

   Health AI regulation

   ○Not determined

   The National AI Strategy and Road Map (2023, to 2028) targets health, but no health-specific AI regulation was found.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

3. M8.3

   Health AI devices approved

   ○Not determined

   No data was found on approved AI health devices.

4. M8.4

   Government AI system registry

   ○Not determined

   No government AI registry was found. The strategy plans a sectoral public/private 'data lake', which is not an AI-system registry.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

5. M8.5

   AI governance M&E reports

   ■Confirmed absence

   OECD.AI (updated 28 Apr 2026) states the National AI Strategy 'has not been evaluated' and that evaluation results are not public.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

6. M8.6

   Agriculture AI governance

   ○Not determined

   Agriculture is a target sector of the AI strategy, but no agriculture-specific AI governance provisions were found.

   Sources oecd.ai (opens in a new tab)

7. M8.7

   Financial services AI governance

   ○Not determined

   BCEAO hosted a May 2025 Dakar conference of African central banks on AI, but no BCEAO AI guidance, circular or instruction for WAEMU was located; the article body was not retrievable.

   Sources financialafrik.com (opens in a new tab)

8. M8.8

   Education AI governance

   ●Evidence found

   Policy adopted: Education Minister Moustapha Mamba Guirassy signed a ministerial note launching AI integration in the education system, with training for 105,000 educators (reported 18 Sep 2025). A National Charter of AI Ethics for education was still being developed.

   Sources guindima.sn (opens in a new tab)

9. M8.9

   Measurable governance outcomes

   ○Not determined

   No documented AI-related protective outcome by the CDP was located in this pass.

10. M8.10

    WHO AI health guidance adoption

    ○Not determined

    No country-specific adoption was found. WHO AFRO AI-for-health ethics workshops (2021, 47 countries; July 2023) do not list participants.

    Sources afro.who.int (opens in a new tab)