Google has opened it’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Centre in Accra, Ghana. The AI centre which is the first to be opened in Africa will gather Machine Learning researchers and engineers in Accra to facilitate local AI development.

Head of Google AI Accra, Moustapha Cisse addressing the media at the event said the aim of establishing the AI Research Centre in Accra is to meet the increasing interest in machine learning research across Africa.

According to him, Google will collaborate with local universities, research organisations and policy makers to deploy AI in solving challenges in the healthcare sector, agriculture, education and other sectors to make things easy and accessible.Google

“We’ll work and collaborate with institutions across the continent; the team itself is very international; it’s already about 10 people coming from more than 12 different countries; Africans and non-Africans as well so we’re looking forward to collaborating with African Institutions. Our goal is to advance the frontiers of this science so we expect to have a scientific impact but also we expect to through collaborations with different institutions working on local challenges, have an impact to be on our field by applying the technology to agriculture to health and to other areas where it can be also,” he said.

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Accra is now joining the list of Google AI centres which includes Paris, Zurich, Tokyo, Beijing, Montreal, Toronto, Seattle, Cambridge/Boston, Tel Aviv/Haifa, New York and San Franciso.

Musa Suleiman
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