AI Strategy for Leaders - lesson 3

Governance, risk and the African regulatory picture

Regulation here is arriving quickly and unevenly. Build for it now.

What you will take away:

• The African Union endorsed a Continental AI Strategy in 2024, and national frameworks are moving at very different speeds.
• Data protection law already applies to your AI use today, well ahead of any dedicated AI statute.
• Build an inventory, an accountable owner per system, and a human review path for consequential decisions.
• Document decisions as you make them. Reconstructing governance retrospectively during an inquiry is not possible.

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