AI4D Africa Winner Francophone Africa African Languages NLP Vision-Language Models Healthcare AI Speech Technology Responsible AI
About

CITADEL (Centre d'Excellence Interdisciplinaire en Intelligence Artificielle pour le Développement) is a leading AI research and capacity-building center headquartered in Burkina Faso. Sole winner from francophone Africa in the IDRC AI4D Africa program, CITADEL develops contextual AI solutions for local challenges while building sustainable AI expertise across the region.

Impact in numbers
15
Countries in program
7
Active cohorts
2M $CA
IDRC funding
138
Applicants (Cohort 7)
Research areas
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Vision-Language Models
Document AI, radiology assistance, property taxation automation
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Speech & Language
ASR & TTS for Mooré, Dioula, Fulfulde, Goulmatchema
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Healthcare AI
AI radiology, telemedicine, epidemiological surveillance
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Responsible AI
Contextual, low-resource, ethics-aware AI for Africa
Supported languages
Mooré Dioula Fulfulde Goulmatchema French English
IDRC AI4D Africa