Senegal Education Digital Strategy — Training 105,000 Teachers in AI and Digital Tools

Senegal's Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Higher Education, Research, and Innovation signed a partnership in March 2025 to launch a $233 million national programme training all 105,000 public school teachers and administrators in digital tools and artificial intelligence, publicly launched on 30 September 2025 at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar as the first phase of the Education Digital Strategy 2025–2029.

Train every public-school teacher and administrator in Senegal in digital tools and AI, covering adaptation of teaching methods to technological change, using AI to enrich learning and create curriculum content, raising student digital and AI awareness, and strengthening cybersecurity and data protection in schools.

Training is delivered online through the Force-N platform, in partnership with Cheikh Hamidou Kane University (formerly the Virtual University of Senegal), using interactive content, self-learning modules and certified assessments accessible via computer, tablet or smartphone. The programme is complemented by a national distribution of 5,000 computers to science-stream secondary students, initiated in October 2025.

No learner-outcome data is yet available; the programme was in early implementation as of mid-2026. Connectivity is a substantive equity risk: approximately 40% of Senegal's population lacked internet access in 2023, which may limit rural teacher participation in the online-first delivery model.

This is one of sub-Saharan Africa's largest public investments in teacher digital and AI capacity, embedded in a five-year national strategy with durable higher-education partnership infrastructure, but it is too early in implementation for any evidence of learning or capability impact, and the online-first design carries a real connectivity-driven equity risk.