Cameroon launched its first National AI Strategy (SNIA) in July 2025, anchored on seven strategic pillars including education, infrastructure, governance, and ethical AI development. The strategy was announced by the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications at the Second National Consultations on AI. It targets training 60,000 AI specialists by 2040 (40% women), creating 12,000 direct jobs, and training 4,000 individuals annually. The plan calls for integrating digital and AI literacy into primary, secondary, and vocational curricula, establishing five national AI centres of excellence, and creating a national AI Authority and Presidential AI Council.
Who it affects: Students across all school levels, through planned curriculum reform; the workforce, through annual training targets and centres of excellence; and the general public, through a digital literacy access strand for informal workers and those with limited formal education.
What is notably missing: The national AI Authority described in the strategy has not yet been established. The strategy is a long-horizon roadmap to 2040 without binding curriculum mandates, dedicated funding mechanisms, or enforcement. The 60,000 specialist target over 15 years represents modest annual throughput given Cameroon’s population. Persistent digital infrastructure gaps — limited internet access and electricity — are acknowledged but no funded solution is outlined.