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Seydina Moussa Ndiaye

Seydina Moussa Ndiaye

Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is the Head of ALIVE (AI Living lab for Innovation and Viable Ethical policies and systems) multidisciplinary research group at Université Numérique Cheikh Hamidou Kane (UNCHK). Whithin the university, he is also Director of the FORCE-N program, which aims to create/improve 70,000 jobs in the digital sector by 2027. Seydina is an expert to the AUDA-NEPAD for the drafting of the Pan-African White Paper on AI and to the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI). He was also a member of the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Advisory Body on AI (dissolved in October 2024). For UNESCO, Seydina is a member of several groups: High-Level Expert Group on AI Governance at the Ecosystem Level, AI Ethics Experts Without Borders, and International Advisory Group for the development of a MOOC on Ethics of AI (project with LG AI Research). He is member of the Board of Directors of CEIMIA (The Montreal International Center of Expertise in Artificial Intelligence). At a national level, he supported the Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, piloting the digital transformation of the Senegalese higher education system, notably by coordinating the acquisition of Senegal’s TAOUEY supercomputer. He is also a member of several bodies, including the National Commission on Cryptology, the Digital Technology Park Project Steering Committee, the Board of Directors of SENUM SA, and he is President of the Senegalese Association for AI. Seydina has supported the Senegalese government in the conceptualization of national AI and data strategies. Seydina holds a PhD in Computer Science, with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence (Université Paul Sabatier), and an MBA (IAE Paris Sorbonne).

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