{"id":75366,"date":"2025-07-11T11:22:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T10:22:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/?p=75366"},"modified":"2025-10-31T14:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T14:04:24","slug":"mtn-developing-ai-for-africa-by-africans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/2025\/07\/11\/mtn-developing-ai-for-africa-by-africans\/","title":{"rendered":"MTN developing AI for Africa by Africans"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>MTN Group has embarked on a journey to leverage responsible AI to reshape Africa at the leading edge of technology, igniting change, inspiring progress and creating a brighter future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAI is no longer an enabler \u2014 it\u2019s the engine reshaping businesses, redefining value creation and rewriting the rules of global innovation and competitiveness,\u201d said MTN Group Digital Infrastructure CEO and GCTIO Mazen Mrou\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAI is not just about automation \u2014 it\u2019s about boosting human potential, increasingly becoming seamlessly embedded into our daily activities, decisions and experiences, transforming how we live and work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says AI is augmenting human intelligence like never before and \u201cwe at MTN are developing AI for Africa by Africans, unlocking sustainable value for all.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As data quality, talent excellence, strategic partnerships and robust infrastructure are all essential to a successful AI implementation journey, MTN has designed an appropriate operating model and established an in-house AI Centre of Excellence (CoE) alongside a Cloud CoE to co-ordinate AI activities across the group, supported by an internal Software Solutions team equipped with more than 300 engineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Driven to deliver tangible value for customers, communities and the business, MTN has identified numerous AI use cases across key business domains including Network, Finance, HR and Commercial functions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt MTN Group, under the group-wide transformation programme branded as \u2018MTN Genova\u2019, we are operationalising AI at scale to boost productivity, elevate customer experience, reduce costs and accelerate revenue generation,\u201d said Mrou\u00e9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MTN Group has embarked on a journey to leverage responsible AI to reshape Africa at the leading edge of technology, igniting change, inspiring progress and creating a brighter future. \u201cAI is no longer an enabler \u2014 it\u2019s the engine reshaping businesses, redefining value creation and rewriting the rules of global innovation and competitiveness,\u201d said MTN [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":75367,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[103,260,382,13,262],"tags":[496,18418,3874],"class_list":["post-75366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mobile","category-regional-news-newsletter","category-telecom","category-top-stories","category-used","tag-ai","tag-mazen-mroue","tag-mtn"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76125,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75366\/revisions\/76125"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}