{"id":227274,"date":"2026-03-24T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T23:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T21:20:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T01:20:11","slug":"navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign\/","title":{"rendered":"Navigating AI policy under foreign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesun.ng\/the-new-digital-colonialism-navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign-tech-dominance-3\/?amp\">Navigating AI policy under foreign<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesun.ng\/the-new-digital-colonialism-navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign-tech-dominance-3\/?amp\">https:\/\/thesun.ng\/the-new-digital-colonialism-navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign-tech-dominance-3\/?amp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 19:53:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"thesun.ng\">thesun.ng<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">INTRODUCTION<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">The <\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s2\"><strong>last installment of this intervention traced the evolution of AI, reviewed notable developments in its trajectory, its African dimension and policy trend therein and beyond. This week\u2019s feature goes further afield, reviewing the position in the US, the EU and China. Thereafter, we consider the dangers of weak localisation and disproportionate influence of foreign technology on African innovation ecosystem. This is followed by a discussion of the issues generated by AI policy and what African states need to do \u2013 using Nigeria as an example\/template. Enjoy.<\/strong> <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d1jcea4y7xhp7l.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bosun-Tijani-IT-Edge-News-300x272.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/d1jcea4y7xhp7l.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bosun-Tijani-IT-Edge-News-300x272.jpg 300w, https:\/\/d1jcea4y7xhp7l.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bosun-Tijani-IT-Edge-News-100x91.jpg 100w, https:\/\/d1jcea4y7xhp7l.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Bosun-Tijani-IT-Edge-News.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\"\/>\u2022Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p5\"><span class=\"s2\">USA, EU, CHINA\u2019S PREFERENCES (Continues)<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s2\">In Africa, the policy landscape is accelerating but uneven. The Global AI Index (www.diplomacy.edu\/resource\/report-stronger-digital-voices-from-africa\/ai-africa-national-policies\/  (Diplomacy.Edu) Accessed on 10th September, 2025) categorizes most African countries as lagging: Egypt, Nigeria and Kenya as nascent, and Morocco, South Africa and Tunisia as waking up (Techpoint Africa,  (Facebook.com, 22nd July, 2025) Accessed on 10th September, 2025). Mauritius led with an AI strategy (Mauritius Artificial Intelligence Strategy, November, 2018 <\/span><span class=\"s4\"> (Treasury.govmu.org) Accessed on 10th September, 2025), followed by Kenya\u2019s AI and blockchain task force (2019) (Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy  (Ict.go.ke) Accessed on 10th September, 2025), its Digital Master Plan (2022) (Kenya Digital Master Plan, 2022 \u2013 2032  (Ict.go.ke) Accessed on 10th September, 2025), and Rwanda\u2019s AI policy (Thompson Gyedu Kwarkye, \u2018AI policies in Africa: lessons from Ghana and Rwanda\u2019 (TheConversation.com, 25th April, 2025) <\/span><span class=\"s2\"> Accessed on 10th September, 2025), which reflects its national security priorities. Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Algeria and South Africa have also announced or drafted <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s2\">AI policies, often framed around economic growth and innovation. <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"p6\"><span class=\"s2\">Continental&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesun.ng\/the-new-digital-colonialism-navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign-tech-dominance-3\/?amp\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Navigating AI policy under foreign https:\/\/thesun.ng\/the-new-digital-colonialism-navigating-ai-policy-under-foreign-tech-dominance-3\/?amp Publish Date: 2026-03-24 19:53:00 Source Domain: thesun.ng INTRODUCTION The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227275,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/d1jcea4y7xhp7l.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/LOGO.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-227274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227274"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227276,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227274\/revisions\/227276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}