Responsible AI Policy & Insights — Africa

Public Participation Submission | Kenya | 2026

Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy — Kenya

Comments on the Draft Kenya Artificial Intelligence and Other Emerging Technologies Policy, 2026

DFIP's submission supports the draft policy's objective of a coherent, rights-based, innovation-enabling AI framework, and offers ten specific recommendations covering institutional clarity, minimum content for sector readiness frameworks, delivery stage gates for National AI Missions, phased support for county readiness, operational proportionality for startups and SMEs, governance of regulatory sandboxes, benefits-realisation in AI procurement, a role-based national AI fluency framework, a project-preparation and investment-readiness window, and stronger monitoring, evaluation and learning indicators.

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Responsible AI & Data Governance | Kenya | 2026

Office of the Data Protection Commissioner — Kenya

Stakeholder Comments on the Guidance Note on Artificial Intelligence (Draft, July 2026)

DFIP submitted practical recommendations addressing institutional AI readiness, meaningful human oversight, executive accountability, AI procurement and vendor due diligence, high-risk AI, organisational AI inventories, role-based AI literacy, proportional governance and responsible use of generative AI.

Submission acknowledged by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner, Kenya.

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Thought Leadership | Frontier AI Governance | 2026

Institutional Readiness as a Layer of Defence in Frontier AI Governance

Exploring how weak institutional capacity to understand, oversee and govern increasingly capable AI systems can amplify systemic risk.