AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoBiodiversity Finance: Lomé is hosting a UNDP BIOFIN workshop to review Togo’s biodiversity financing policy and institutional framework, including financing gaps, harmful subsidies and priority solutions. AI for Languages: Togo has launched an initiative to build open AI models for its 50 national languages, targeting validated speech and translated sentence pairs to power speech recognition, text-to-speech and translation competitions. AI + Compliance: Lomé’s GRCRO summit is bringing regulators and tech firms together to tackle fraud and money laundering, focusing on how AI is being used for deepfakes, forged documents and automated scams. STEM for Youth: A Lomé summer camp is teaching children to code and build robots, with a push to narrow the digital divide for girls in STEM. Digital Governance: Togo marked International Archives Day in Lomé, urging better records management and digitization to strengthen transparency and citizens’ rights. Marine Science: GAEC is coordinating with scientists from 21 African countries to harmonize microplastics monitoring protocols using nuclear and isotopic techniques. Tech & Business: The Made in Togo trade fair now measures success by sales revenue, while Lomé also hosted a Togo–Israel framework for regular political consultations with room for innovation and cybersecurity cooperation.
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