{"id":223909,"date":"2026-02-16T00:52:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-the-accra-mandate-securing-africas-ai-future-through-local-data-and-ethical-governance\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T22:52:56","slug":"africa-the-accra-mandate-securing-africas-ai-future-through-local-data-and-ethical-governance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/africa-the-accra-mandate-securing-africas-ai-future-through-local-data-and-ethical-governance\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: The Accra Mandate &#8211; Securing Africa&#8217;s Ai Future Through Local Data and Ethical Governance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">As the global conversation on technology transpires, Ghana is positioned to host another defining moment for the continent&#8217;s digital future. The Pan African AI and Innovation Summit (PAAIS) 2026, in its second year, scheduled for September 22-23 at the Kempinski Hotel, is building on the 2025 edition&#8217;s strategic convening of minds dedicated to the responsible advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">Under the theme <em>&#8220;Scaling Africa&#8217;s Ethical AI &amp; Innovation Ecosystem: Youth Empowerment,&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130291.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the global conversation on technology transpires, Ghana is positioned to host another defining moment for the continent&#8217;s digital future. The Pan African AI and Innovation Summit (PAAIS) 2026, in its second year, scheduled for September 22-23 at the Kempinski Hotel, is building on the 2025 edition&#8217;s strategic convening of minds dedicated to the responsible [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[4512,258,256,6287,9880,20004,5760,4509,6866,7823,10601,257,20027,254],"class_list":["post-223909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accra","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-africas","tag-data","tag-ethical","tag-future","tag-ghana-news","tag-governance","tag-local","tag-mandate","tag-news","tag-securing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}