[afnog] Ai protocol development and African footprint

[Loganaden Velvindron]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2025 at 15:40, Barrack Otieno <otieno.barrack at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Logan,
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> Many thanks for the headsup, I think we should find our space on the table, you can elaborate more on opportunities for involvement and the investment required.
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There are 2 emerging AI protocols which are rapidly gaining momentum:
MCP and A2A.

Both of those protocols are being developed through their respective
governance structure.

We need to prepare our continent to be part of the development of
those AI protocols before those are shipped.
For now, conversations are taking place on github. We should
familiarise people from our continent with understanding github first.
As for the investment involved, it would depend on both public and
private partnerships in our regions. How many universities
are working on AI projects ? How many companies are building AI
chatbots and AI agents ?

I saw this "hackathon":
https://cioafrica.co/the-cortex-hub-launches-the-model-context-protocol-hackathon/

How many companies and universities are encouraging their students to
not only work on leveraging those AI protocols
but also **contribute** to them ?





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> On Tue, 28 Oct 2025, 8:09 am Loganaden Velvindron, <loganaden at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Dear All,
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>> As AI companies are now working on AI protocols such as A2A to
>> internetconnect AI agents, we need to take the time to reflect on our
>> position as a continent. We are close to 1.5 billion people and yet we
>> remain absent from AI protocol development (the same situation as IETF
>> protocol).
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>> As AI is penetrating several industries, we need to ask ourselves a
>> simple question:
>> What can we do as Africans to be part of AI protocol development ?
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> //Logan
>> (speaking in my individual capacity)
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