ITU is set to hold a training titled “AI governance in practice: Developing secure and innovative frameworks,” in person in Addis Ababa on 2nd to 6th February 2026. The deadline for applications is on 9th November 2025. More details here.

The Nigeria Data Protection Commission announced a call for papers to its International Journal of Data Privacy and Protection on July 14th with a September 30th deadline. The focus areas included Artificial Intelligence under emerging technologies.

The African Observatory on Responsible AI in collaboration with Ethics Lab University of Capetown offered a course on AI Ethics and Policy Africa, traversing the subject under various subsets including African policy and ethical considerations on AI set to run from 29th July to 2nd September.

The Tech and AI Expo 2025 is set to take place in Zanzibar on 22nd to 23rd August, captioned “The gateway to Africa’s digital revolution.”

The Deep Learning Indaba 2025 Rwanda is set to take place in Kigali, from 17th to 22nd August in partnership with the University of Rwanda, under the theme: “Urunana–Hand in hand for AI in Africa.”

From July 31st to August 1st 2025, the 6th edition of the African NLP workshop will take place in Vienna, Austria under the theme—“Multilingual and Multicultural-aware LLMs,” submissions are welcomed with a deadline of March 7th 2025. Find out more here.

Google for Startups made a call for applications for its Growth Academy: AI for GovTech with an application deadline of July 31st. The call is to Europe, Middle East and Africa located startups crafting solutions that support governments and communities in various sectors including in energy, agriculture, education and more here.

The Global AI Index on Responsible AI made a call for country researchers with an application deadline of July 31st. The country researchers are to track countries’ responsible AI efforts. More here.