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Liberia's First AI Master's Degree — UNDP and Intel Help the University of Liberia Co-Design a National AI Curriculum

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Evidence: Descriptive / self-reported Top 73% 40/100 · Ask Evidence Copilot about this practice

UNDP and Intel ran a three-day workshop and six expert-led co-design sessions with 20 University of Liberia faculty to build the country's first Master of AI programme, sealed by a new Intel–UL licensing agreement, under the same March 2025 MoU that also trained Liberian governme

20 faculty
University of Liberia faculty involved in curriculum co-design
6 sessions
Expert-led co-design sessions
nearly 100
Government officials trained (UNDP global figure)
about 70
Government officials trained (Liberia AI Sprint account)

Details

Maturity
Pilot
Promoter
University of Liberia / UNDP Liberia / Intel Corporation
Period
2025–ongoing
Keywords
higher education, AI curriculum design, faculty development, public-sector AI training

Context

Under a March 2025 Memorandum of Understanding between UNDP and Intel Corporation — the same partnership that launched the Digital Ambassadors programme in Lesotho — UNDP Liberia supported the University of Liberia in designing the country's first-ever Master of Artificial Intelligence programme.

Objectives

The goal is to co-create an AI curriculum adapted to Liberia's needs and to build lasting institutional capacity for AI education at the University of Liberia.

Activities

The design process combined six online sessions with global AI experts and in-person workshops in Monrovia involving 20 University of Liberia faculty members. In parallel, the same UNDP-Intel partnership delivered AI training to Liberian government officials on regulation, service delivery and policy uses of AI.

Results

A concrete early outcome was a new licensing agreement between Intel and the University of Liberia giving the institution direct, ongoing access to Intel's specialised AI training content. Reported figures for government officials trained diverge — UNDP's global summary cites nearly 100, while a Liberia-specific account of a related 'AI Sprint' workshop reports about 70 across Regulator, User and Enabler roles — and no single authoritative total is available.

Conclusions

As reported, the Master of AI programme was still at the curriculum co-design stage, with no student cohort yet enrolled or evaluated; the outcome to date is institutional capacity — a licensing agreement and a trained faculty group — rather than measured student learning.

Implementation
Indicative cost
Low (< €50k)
Time to results
Medium (1–3 years)
Staffing & skills
UNDP Liberia, Intel Corporation, University of Liberia (20 faculty members), Global AI experts (six co-design sessions)

Conditions for success

  • A formal UNDP-Intel Memorandum of Understanding
  • Faculty co-design involvement rather than a top-down curriculum
  • A licensing agreement giving the university ongoing access to training content
  • A parallel government-official training track to build regulatory capacity

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