AI–Citizens’ relationship: Analysing Egypt and Mauritius national AI strategies

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dc.contributor.authorHendawy, Mennatullah
dc.contributor.authorAnsari, Zahra
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-22T12:35:23Z
dc.date.available2024-02-22T12:35:23Z
dc.date.issued2023-09
dc.departmentDigital Governance
dc.description.abstractRecently, in the African context, there has been a great appetite for digitising services, more specifically infrastructure services, and using artificial intelligence (AI). To facilitate the development of AI, governments publish national AI strategies (NAS). In this context, governments across Africa started to issue national AI strategies to keep up with the advancements in AI (see Bareis and Katzenbach, 2022). So far, few African countries have published national AI strategies (Digiwatch, 2020; TRT Afrika, 2023). Mauritius and Egypt are the only African countries with a publicly available national strategy outlining vision and objectives (Onyango, 2022). There is an increased use of artificial intelligence (AI) in infrastructures that support the many functions performed by society. For example, public transportation, (renewable) energy, education and workplaces have all included AI and smart technology in their infrastructure. Building on the need to ensure access to AI infrastructure as it continues to disrupt African cities, this paper uses the understandings from the analytical framework of infrastructure citizenship to analyse Egypt and Mauritius NASs in order to explore the following: How is the relationship between citizens and infrastructure (AI applications) portrayed in each strategy? and How are AI applications framed in both strategies to improve or hinder the relationship between citizens and infrastructure?
dc.description.librarianMM2024
dc.description.sponsorshipHanns Seidel Stiftung
dc.facultyFaculty of Commerce, Law and Management
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10539/37699
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUniversity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
dc.relation.ispartofseriesTayarisha Working Paper Series | No: 2023/014
dc.rights©2023 Tayarisha African Centre of Excellence in Digital Governance
dc.schoolWits School of Governance
dc.subjectAfrican Governance
dc.subjectDigital Age
dc.subjectAI-Citizens
dc.subjectAI strategies
dc.subjectArtificial Intelligence (AI)
dc.subjectAI applications
dc.subject.otherSDG-9: Industry, innovation and infrastructure
dc.titleAI–Citizens’ relationship: Analysing Egypt and Mauritius national AI strategies
dc.typeWorking Paper
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