[afnog] African ai infrastructure

[Loganaden Velvindron]

Hi Houda,

Apologies for the late reply. I've been extremely busy. Here is what
we have as roadmap:
-Use Small models hosted in Africa to detect vulnerabilities in open
source software.
-Push for sovereign AI (This requires lower stack technology which is
under our control like email, web, DNS, etc ...).
-Get as many organizations onboard as possible such as SOCs, CERTs,
civil society, universities,
NOGs, sovereign tech advocates, and many others.
-Your suggestion here ?

We don't want to be subject to Export controls on AI and therefore it
is better if we start small
but with something under our control, even if it's not as fast as
frontier AI models.

Open Source software is the backbone of a lot of networking products
that have been deployed
in Africa.

See the license for microtik for example (http://demo2.mt.lv/license.txt):

For license obligations below that require responses  by  email,  you
should contact Mikrotikls SIA at: mt at mikrotik.com

For license obligations below that  require  responses  by  telephone
or fax, you should contact Mikrotikls SIA at:
telephone +371 7 801 080, fax +371 7 542 530

To get a CD with the corresponding source code for the GPL-covered
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Package name   License    URL
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e2fsprogs      GPL    ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/packages/ext2fs

linux kernel   GPL    http://www.kernel.org/

ppp       PPP    ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/network/
           serial/ppp

racoon       racoon http://www.kame.net/

SGI STL        STL    http://www.sgi.com/tech/stl/

OpenSSL        OpenSSL http://www.openssl.org/

OpenSSH        OpenSSH http://www.openssh.org/

SYSLINUX       GPL    http://syslinux.zytor.com/

expat          expat  http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html

libsvg       LGPL   http://cairographics.org/libsvg

libsvg-cairo   LGPL   http://cairographics.org/libsvg-cairo

cairo          MPL    http://cairographics.org/

fontconfig     fontconfig http://www.fontconfig.org/wiki/

freetype       freetype http://www.freetype.org/

net-snmp       net-snmp http://net-snmp.sourceforge.net/

libcroco       LGPL   https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libcroco

pango          LGPL   http://www.pango.org/

librsvg        LGPL   http://librsvg.sourceforge.net/

glib           LGPL   http://www.gtk.org/

gtk+           LGPL   http://www.gtk.org/

ZeroTier       ZeroTier BSL https://www.zerotier.com/

Nghttp2        MIT    https://nghttp2.org/

curve255js     MIT    https://github.com/rev22/curve255js

CryptoJS       MIT    https://cryptojs.gitbook.io

On Wed, 17 Jun 2026 at 10:39, Houda CHIHI <houda.chihi at supcom.tn> wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
>
> Hope that you are doing well, the project idea is very interesting please count me in in the collaboration process,
>
>
> Good Day !
> ________________________________
> De : afnog <afnog-bounces at afnog.org> de la part de sm+afrinic at elandsys.com <sm+afrinic at elandsys.com>
> Envoyé : lundi 15 juin 2026 17:25
> À : Loganaden Velvindron <loganaden at gmail.com>; afnog at afnog.org <afnog at afnog.org>
> Objet : Re: [afnog] African ai infrastructure
>
> Hello,
> At 08:57 AM 14-06-2026, Loganaden Velvindron wrote:
> >It is sad that one ai model is currently being restricted due to
> >national security reasons in the usa.
>
> There was an academic paper about "boundary point jailbreaking of
> black-box LLMs" [1].  It includes some information about bypassing
> the restrictions built into a LLM.
>
> The possibility that Anthropic Fable's restrictions could be bypassed
> caused security concerns in the U.S.  That is why foreigners are no
> longer allowed to access that AI model.
>
> The capabilities of an AI model are often highly exaggerated [2].  A
> few open source software projects have been complaining about code
> submissions [3] generated by AI.  There was a significant increase in
> vulnerability reports.  Some of those reports are probably AI-generated [4].
>
> Regards,
> S. Moonesamy
>
> 1. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2602.15001
> 2.
> https://www.reuters.com/business/fears-unfettered-hacking-spurred-by-anthropics-mythos-ai-model-overstated-2026-05-20/
> 3. https://devtalk.blender.org/t/ai-contributions-policy-proposal/44202
> 4. Liu, D., Chang, O., metzman, J., Sablotny, M., & Maruseac, M.
> (2024). OSS-Fuzz-Gen: Automated Fuzz Target Generation
>
>
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