Astria Learning, a global education technology company, and Makerere University of Uganda have joined forces to establish an artificial intelligence (AI) e-Campus.
The deal has been characterised as a transformative alliance that would increase postgraduate access, digitise research collaboration, and enable African universities to be leaders in AI-driven innovation.
The e-Campus, which was launched at the biennial African Research Universities Alliance meeting, is being lauded as a model for how Africa will learn, research, and develop knowledge in the future.
“Education is Africa’s inheritance, the most powerful bridge between potential and prosperity,” said Dr Jeff Bordes, CEO of Astria.
“The AI e-Campus will ensure that the next generation of African thinkers, researchers, and leaders are not waiting for opportunity; they are creating it.”
Makerere is Uganda's largest and oldest higher education institution.
Prof. Barnabas Nawangwe, vice chancellor, observed that the university was making strategic efforts to broaden its reach through online learning.
This enables the university to provide high-quality graduate training to scholars across the world.
“The partnership with Astria Learning will facilitate this endeavour and by extension, advance our research-led agenda too by enabling us to recruit graduate trainees from all over the world,” Nawangwe said.
The e-Campus will culminate in the launch of a continental digital platform for postgraduate learning and research collaboration, expanding access to AI-powered, borderless education across Africa, digitising every stage of the academic process, and supporting the African Union's vision of producing 100,000 new PhDs by 2035, which is aligned with Agenda 2063.
Astria, headquartered in Florida, works with higher education institutions in 16 countries.
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