The operating system for the Global South. Sovereign AI infrastructure, built local, owned local. ๐
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A new chapter for sovereign AI in the Central African Republic. ๐จ๐ซ
@AminiTech and CCIS signed an MoU to advance mineral intelligence, public services, local data infrastructure and technical skills.
"Sovereign AI is not just about technology โ it is about providing nations with the agency to control their memory, govern their resource wealth, and shape their digital future on their own terms." - @KateKallot.
Together with the Central African Republic, we are proving that the Global South can build, own, and benefit from its AI future.
What does it take for a country to own its AI future?
Weโre taking you behind the scenes of Aminiโs work in Barbados in a new episode of The Solutionaries, produced by TIME Studios with PMI. See how weโre building sovereign AI infrastructure so countries can own, process and govern their data locally.
Weโre grateful to our team, @TIME Studios, @PMInstitute, and partners in Barbados for helping tell this story. Special thanks to this episode's Director @ebucklesjr, our Founder & CEO @KateKallot, Prime Minister @miaamormottley, Minister Jonathan Reid, ROAD Programme Manager Chereda Grannum, our Barbados Program Manager Chelceรฉ Brathwaite, and an incredible team of Bajan builders.
๐ฌ Watch the full episode: time.com/branded-content/proโฆ
Africa has the talent. Itโs time to back it.
At #UnstoppableAfrica, our Founder & CEO @KateKallot called for investment in homegrown innovation, locally owned and processed African data, and compute that scales with demand.
๐ฅ Watch the full discussion here: youtube.com/live/QceEdFmpWxIโฆ
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AI is changing whatโs possible. How do we make sure it changes lives for the better?
Join the conversation at #CGI2026: clintonglobal.org/2026
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๐นSam Gill @DorisDukeFdn
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๐น@KateKallot @AminiTech
๐น@raj_devex @devex
๐นJamie Merisotis @LuminaFound
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Amini retweeted
Africaโs limited data centre capacity means much of its data is processed on foreign cloud infrastructure. @AminiTech Founder and CEO @KateKallot says stronger infrastructure is needed for Africa to capture more value from its expanding AI and digital economy.
#GABI
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What happens when African innovators build AI around the realities of the continent?
This month, we spotlight Kate Kallot (@KateKallot), Founder and CEO of Amini (@AminiTech), whose work sits at the intersection of AI, data and environmental intelligence.
Through Amini (@AminiTech), Kate (@KateKallot) is combining satellite data, machine learning and digital infrastructure to address challenges across climate, agriculture and sustainability.
Her journey reflects an important evolution in Africa's technology ecosystem.
African innovators are moving beyond adapting global technologies to local markets. Increasingly, they are building new infrastructure, data systems and AI solutions around African realities.
Before founding Amini (@AminiTech), Kate (@KateKallot) also contributed to NVIDIA's efforts to expand AI access and innovation across emerging markets.
At Data Science Nigeria (@dsn_ai_network) , we celebrate innovators whose work demonstrates that the future of AI will be shaped not only by technological capability, but by the problems we choose to solve with it.
#DataScienceNigeria #AIInnovatorOfTheMonth #ArtificialIntelligence #AIForAfrica #AfricanInnovation #ClimateTech
Barbados now has a national digital twin built from its own cell tower infrastructure, and our team built it. ๐ง๐ง
We modeled 130,248 buildings, 100 antennas and 17,966 water mains across six frequency bands to explore how existing telecom infrastructure can help countries better understand their physical environment and climate risk.
No GPU. No cloud dependency. Designed to run locally.
The research and reproduction code are now open, alongside the story behind the work led by Zoรซ Cayetano and team
๐ Research: arxiv.org/abs/2607.28756
๐ Code: github.com/aminitech/aminiulโฆ
๐ Story: amini.ai/blog-post/i-have-beโฆ
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This yearโs theme, โรmแปฬ Wa, Our Shared Knowledge,โ captured that perfectly.
The knowledge already exists. The opportunity is to build the infrastructure that allows countries and communities to use it, govern it and create value from it.
Proud to be building alongside this community. ๐
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Weโre already seeing what this can look like in practice.
From environmental intelligence built using satellite and local data to sovereign AI deployments that help governments digitise, search and use their own institutional knowledge, the infrastructure layer matters.
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Our Founder & CEO @KateKallot also took the stage to share a belief at the heart of our work:
Africa does not lack knowledge, data or talent. What is still missing in many places is the infrastructure needed to activate them at scale and on local terms.
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It means building across the full stack, from digitising overlooked records and creating trusted data foundations to local compute and applications that make that knowledge useful.
The goal is to move from data that exists, but remains difficult to use, to intelligence that can serve institutions and communities.
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For us, sovereign AI starts with a fundamental question:
How do countries turn their own data, knowledge and context into intelligence while retaining control over the infrastructure that makes it possible?
That means thinking beyond AI models alone.
1,000+ African AI researchers, engineers and builders, together in Lagos to shape one shared AI future. ๐
At this yearโs @DeepIndaba, our team joined the community to share what weโre learning as we build sovereign AI infrastructure across Africa and the Global South. ๐งต
Amini retweeted
Global partnerships matter. Local ownership matters more.
โA common sovereignty story โฆ African, European, Taiwanese.โ Thank you @EmmanuelMacron for naming what this partnership stands for.
Together with Foxconn and Bull, we are building modular AI data centres designed for African realities, expanding local compute capacity and strengthening sovereign AI infrastructure.
@AminiTech @WilliamsRuto #AfricaForwardSummit2026
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If AI is to serve us all, it must be built by us all.
Thatโs the message that @KateKallot, Founder and CEO of @AminiTech, brought to the #SkollWF. In her work building data infrastructure across Africa and the Global South, Kallot reminds us that the promise of AI depends on inclusive participation in its development. Yet millions of people are excluded not only from building AI systems, but even from contributing their cultures and conversations to train the models.
Watch the rest of Kallotโs talk to learn how sheโs going beyond inclusivity to achieve true data sovereignty for countries and leaders worldwideโleveraging local talent to ensure the AI revolution benefits everyone, no matter where they call home: youtube.com/watch?v=D_bzXBmRโฆ
Constraint isnโt a limitation. Itโs a design principle.
Innovation in the #GlobalSouth starts with constraint, not abundance, and that changes how systems are built. In her conversation with @BBC Business Daily, our Founder & CEO @KateKallot shares what it means to build in this reality.
At @AminiTech, this has shaped our approach: treating data, compute, and connectivity as one AI infrastructure stack from day one.
๐๏ธListen to the full episode โ bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct8g94
Amini retweeted
Thanks to @AminiTech for hosting us. As an alumni of @uonbi it was very encouraging to learn of the AI work taking place there. It's always exciting getting a chance to discuss tech for Africa, with other like-minded people. Looking forward to the #AfricaForwardSummit
Talent is everywhere. Opportunity is not.
At the #WBGSpringMeetings, our CEO @KateKallot shared how infrastructure, not talent, is the real constraint.
@AminiTech is building sovereign #AI infrastructure for the #GlobalSouth, designed for real conditions, local data, edge compute, and resilient connectivity.
Because ideas shouldnโt fail before theyโre built.
@AminiTech is No. 3 on @FastCompany's Most Innovative Companies 2026 list, one of just 10 companies recognized across Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
This one's for the team.
Read more about this year's #FCMostInnovative list here: fastcompany.com/91497200/eurโฆ
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Mark your calendars for our Day 2๏ธโฃ Keynotes on Tuesday, 3 March! ๐
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Speakers include: @Qualcomm, @CalixHQ, @Huawei, @USC
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Speakers include: @ExponentialView, @NetcrackerTech, @Adobe, @Blizzard_Ent
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Speakers include: @mobileworldlive, @AminiTech, @ouraring, @lumentechco + more
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Speakers include: @MTNGroup, @reliancejio, @TIM_Official, @Turkcell, @Colt_Technology
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