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Akademi x Universite Quisqueya — Six-Month Data Science & AI Bootcamp (Port-au-Prince)

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 98% 13/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

A six-month Akademi-Universite Quisqueya bootcamp trained 100 young Haitians in data science, AI, cybersecurity and software engineering; 71 graduated in November 2025, building AI tools for local problems including breast-cancer detection and food-insecurity forecasting.

100
Participants enrolled (May–Nov 2025)
71
Participants graduated (9 Nov 2025)
39 / 23 / 9
Graduates by track (Data Science & AI / cybersecurity / software engineering) (9 Nov 2025)
Akademi x Universite Quisqueya — Six-Month Data Science & AI Bootcamp (Port-au-Prince)

Details

Maturity
Scaling
Promoter
Akademi & Universite Quisqueya
Period
May 2025 - November 2025 (first documented cohort; programme continuing into 2026)
Keywords
data science, AI, cybersecurity, software engineering, higher education

Context

Haiti's fragile economy and weak formal tech sector leave few pathways into applied AI work, even as local organisations face concrete problems — from overstretched healthcare diagnostics to recurring food-insecurity crises — that data-driven tools could help address.

Activities

Akademi, a private Haitian tech-training provider, partnered with Universite Quisqueya in Port-au-Prince to run a selective, six-month in-person bootcamp for 100 young Haitians split into three specialist tracks: Data Science & AI, cybersecurity, and software engineering.

Results

On 9 November 2025, 71 of the 100 participants received certificates (39 in Data Science & AI, 23 in cybersecurity, 9 in software engineering). Graduating teams built applied AI projects addressing Haitian challenges, including a breast-cancer detection model trained on mammography data and a predictive model for national food-insecurity risk using economic, climatic and environmental indicators.

Conclusions

Universite Quisqueya has since published an official syllabus for a further cohort (dated May 2026, powered by Flatiron School), indicating the programme continues, but no independent, rigorous impact evaluation of job placement or measured learning gains has been published, and no explicit equity targeting was described in available sources.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Medium (€50k–€500k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
Akademi (private Haitian tech-training provider), Universite Quisqueya faculty and programme staff

Conditions for success

  • Selective, in-person six-month format with three specialist tracks
  • University partnership providing institutional continuity between cohorts
  • Applied, locally-relevant capstone projects (health, food security)

Common failure modes

  • No independent evaluation of job placement or learning gains has been published
  • No stated gender-balance, disability-access or rural-outreach targeting
  • No documented data-protection or model-governance framework for student-built AI tools, including a medical-diagnosis model

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