Service

Expertise and advice

• Since 2024

  Consultant to UNDP Côte d’Ivoire Assignment from April to September 2024: writing the national guide for integrating innovation and training UNDP staff to use it. UNDP has since called on me regularly for its AI and digitalisation projects.

• Since 2024

  National task force on artificial intelligence Member of the task force that drafts and implements the National Artificial Intelligence Strategy, in its research and development group, under the ministry in charge of the digital transition.

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  National task force on data governance Member of the research and development group of the task force on the National Data Governance Strategy: data quality, reuse and sovereignty.

• Since 2023

  Steering committee of the Pro.IA programme A five-year national programme to develop and popularise AI, led by UNDP, UNESCO, CGECI and UFHB. It has three components: research (AI Fab Lab, doctoral theses, training, hackathons), AI adoption by companies (platforms, pilot projects, support to startups) and AI governance.

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  African Local Language Partnerships Accelerator Pilot Selected for this joint initiative of UNDP and the Italian G7 Presidency on AI for African languages: collection and governance of language data, public-private partnerships, digital public goods.

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  Ministry of Women, Family and Children Designed, at the ministry’s request, a computer skills programme for women: objectives, modules, tools and evaluation.

IndabaX Côte d’Ivoire

IndabaX is the national branch of the Deep Learning Indaba, the gathering of the African machine learning community. I represent the Deep Learning Indaba in Côte d’Ivoire. I launched the IndabaX Conference on Artificial Intelligence (C2IA) in 2021 and have chaired its organising committee since. Centre IDTDS provides its legal and financial framework.

• 2026

  5th edition8 and 9 December 2026, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny.

• 2025

  4th edition17 and 18 December 2025, American space of Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny. Theme: “Artificial intelligence for all: foundations, uses and challenges in a changing world”.

• 2023

  3rd edition10 and 11 October 2023, National Computing Centre of Côte d’Ivoire (CNCCI), Bingerville.

• 2022

  2nd edition20 and 21 December 2022, Abidjan.

• 2021

  1st editionUniversité Félix Houphouët-Boigny, Abidjan.

In August 2025 I attended the Deep Learning Indaba in Kigali, Rwanda, with participants from 51 African countries.

Public administration

• 2021 to 2023

  Director of Information Systems Ministry of Reconciliation and National Cohesion, July 2021 to October 2023: IT master plan, paperless procedures, electronic document management, information security, staff training and connection of the ministry’s directorates.

University service

• Member of the steering committee that created the Master’s track in artificial intelligence at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science: curriculum, competency framework, module content and equipment needs.
• Member of the research projects committee of the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science since June 2024.
• KOICA “Training Program on Strengthening ICT Higher Education Capacity for UFHB”, Seoul, 10 to 23 November 2024.
• ITEC programme at the Entrepreneurship Development Institute of India (Ahmedabad), 31 March to 11 April 2025, on behalf of UFHB and in connection with UNDP: innovation centres and partnerships between India and Côte d’Ivoire.

Workshops and events

• May 2026

  AI and Urban Mobility Hackathon, Greater Abidjan 15 and 16 May 2026, UFHB, co-organised with UNDP and IBM, attended by the Director of Innovation of the ministry in charge of the digital transition.

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  UNDP national workshops Assessment of the AI landscape in Côte d’Ivoire; launch of the national assessments on digital transformation and AI; consultation on the strategy of the AI Hub for Sustainable Development.

Peer review and committees

• Reviewer for Information Sciences (Elsevier).
• Reviewer for NeurIPS 2019, Vancouver, Canada.
• Scientific committee of the IEEE Colloquium on Information Science and Technology (CIST 2016), Tangier, Morocco.