No paid figure stated in the government’s documents
No regional or national AI budget line with spending exists in the documents read: the AU's Continental AI Strategy carries no budget, Kenya's and Nigeria's national budgets have no line for their AI strategies, and Rwanda's published policy prints no costing. The one paid figure is on a broader line: Kenya's Controller of Budget reports KES 252.22 million spent in FY 2025/26 on the Konza Data Centre and Smart City project (KES 20,843.63 million cumulatively to 30 June 2026), a government data-centre and smart-city build, not an AI programme.
African Union Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy (endorsed July 2024) (AFRICAN-UNION)
A part of the programme. No single instrument covers the record, which bundles three national programmes and continental initiatives; the continental strategy is the regional umbrella, so it is the primary line. It carries no budget or cost: its resource-mobilisation section commits the AU and member states to 'mobilise financing' without an amount, and the Executive Council's July 2026 decisions on the AU's 2026 budget contain no line for it. 'african-union' stands in for a government code because 'au' is Australia's ISO code.
Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030 (Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy) (Kenya)
A part of the programme. The strategy (March 2025) and its implementation roadmap (December 2025) print no budget or cost, and the Controller of Budget's FY 2025/26 report shows the ICT State Department's three programmes (administration, ICT infrastructure, e-government) with no AI sub-programme. The KES 152 billion widely reported as the strategy's implementation budget appears in neither government document read; it is kept below as press context only.
Announced: 152 billion KES, 27 Mar 2025. Printed as “Ksh.152 billion”. Press report of the launch (tier 3): the amount 'the government requires' to implement the strategy by 2030, half of it for digital infrastructure. Not found in the strategy or the roadmap; a requirement, not an allocation. The report indicates that the government requires at least Ksh.152 billion to implement the AI strategy report by 2030, with AI's digital infrastructure requiring 50 per cent of the budget.
Citizen Digital, Kenya launches National AI strategy with Ksh.152B implementation budget, article body, 27 Mar 2025
Konza Data Centre and Smart City project (State Department for ICT and Digital Economy development budget) (Kenya)
A budget covering more than the AI programme. A government data centre and smart-city build financed by the Government of Kenya and China (the report's 'GoK/China'), with a project value of KES 27,217 million, commencement printed as '7-01-19' and expected completion '22-6-28' in the report's own table; the AI strategy lists the 'AI-powered Konza smart city' among existing public-sector initiatives, but the project is not an AI programme. The line pairs the FY 2025/26 funding with that year's expenditure; the cumulative figure is kept among the line's figures because the table's commencement date is ambiguous between day-month and month-day formats.
In a budget estimate: the Konza Data Centre and Smart City project’s 252 million KES funding for FY 2025/26, July 2025 to June 2026. Printed as “252.40”. About $2M at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2026. Konza Data Centre and Smart City | 7-01-19 | 22-6-28 | GoK/China | 27,217 | 252.40 | 252.22 | 20,843.63 | 77
Office of the Controller of Budget, Kenya, National Government Budget Implementation Review Report FY 2025/2026 (August 2026), Table 4.50 (State Department for ICT & Digital Economy projects implementation status), row 'Konza Data Centre and Smart City', column 'Funding in FY 2025/26 (Kshs. Million)'; PDF page 148 (report page 117), 4 Sep 2026
Spent: 252 million KES by 30 Jun 2026. Printed as “252.22”. 12 of the budget’s 12 months had passed. About $2M at the reference rate of 30 Jun 2026. Konza Data Centre and Smart City | 7-01-19 | 22-6-28 | GoK/China | 27,217 | 252.40 | 252.22 | 20,843.63 | 77
Office of the Controller of Budget, Kenya, National Government Budget Implementation Review Report FY 2025/2026 (August 2026), Table 4.50, row 'Konza Data Centre and Smart City', column 'Expenditure in FY 2025/26 (Kshs. Million)'; PDF page 148 (report page 117), 4 Sep 2026
Spent: 20.8 billion KES, 30 Jun 2026. Printed as “20,843.63”. Cumulative expenditure on the project to 30 June 2026 as reported by the State Department to the Controller of Budget (77% complete); accumulates from the project's commencement, printed '7-01-19'. Konza Data Centre and Smart City | 7-01-19 | 22-6-28 | GoK/China | 27,217 | 252.40 | 252.22 | 20,843.63 | 77
Office of the Controller of Budget, Kenya, National Government Budget Implementation Review Report FY 2025/2026 (August 2026), Table 4.50, row 'Konza Data Centre and Smart City', column 'Cumulative Expenditure as of 30 June 2026 (Kshs. Million)'; PDF page 148 (report page 117), 4 Sep 2026
Rwanda National Artificial Intelligence Policy (approved by Cabinet, 2023; Ministry of ICT and Innovation) (Rwanda)
A part of the programme. The policy published by MINICT (a 23-page summary) says its implementation plan sets out a budget for each policy area but prints no amount. The US$76.5 million cost reported at approval is press context only; no Rwandan budget law, budget framework paper or execution report reached in this session names an AI line.
Announced: $76.5 million, 4 May 2023. Printed as “$76.5 million”. Press report (tier 3) of the total investment the policy requires over five years; the same article says at least $1.2 million of it was 'already funded or budgeted'. A requirement, not an allocation, and not printed in the policy document MINICT publishes. The national Artificial Intelligence policy, approved recently by the cabinet, will require a total investment of $76.5 million over the next five years, The New Times has learnt.
The New Times (Rwanda), Rwanda needs $76m to implement new AI policy, first paragraph, 4 May 2023
Nigeria National Artificial Intelligence Strategy (Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy; NITDA and its National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics) (Nigeria)
A part of the programme. Neither the 2025 Appropriation Act nor the 2026 Appropriation Act details carry a line for the strategy, NITDA or NCAIR: the Ministry of Communications' capital lists contain no AI project, and NITDA is not an appropriated MDA. The only federal line named for a national AI strategy is a small, long-running Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation project (kept among the line's figures), which is a different ministry's 'strategy/policy on artificial intelligence and robotics', not the national strategy. Dozens of constituency projects for AI training are scattered across both acts and are not the programme.
Annual appropriation: ₦2.04 million, 26 Feb 2025. Printed as “2,045,000”. Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation HQ capital line ERGP30140924, 2025 appropriation (the act's own schedules give no dates; fiscal year 2025). No project-level execution is published. ERGP30140924 " DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL STRATEGY /POLICY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF MSME MANUFACTURING AND AUTOMATION OF AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT " ONGOING 2,045,000
Budget Office of the Federation, Nigeria, 2025 Appropriation Act as passed (details), Federal Republic of Nigeria, PDF page 853, Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation – HQTRS, code ERGP30140924, 26 Feb 2025
Annual appropriation: ₦1.43 million, 10 Apr 2026. Printed as “1,431,500”. The same line in the 2026 Appropriation Act details (fiscal year 2026). " DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL STRATEGY /POLICY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND ROBOTICS FOR RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT, ERGP30140924 INNOVATION AND TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS ONGOING 1,431,500
Budget Office of the Federation, Nigeria, 2026 Appropriation Act details, Federal Republic of Nigeria, PDF page 1142, Federal Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation – HQTRS, code ERGP30140924, 10 Apr 2026
Searched, 8 places
Kenya: Office of the Controller of Budget (cob.go.ke): National Government Budget Implementation Review Report FY 2025/2026 (August 2026, 426 pp.), ICT and Digital Economy sections (Tables 4.48–4.50); the report index listing quarterly and annual reports to the first nine months of FY 2025/26. The ICT State Department's programmes and sub-programmes (no AI sub-programme) and project table with the Konza Data Centre and Smart City project; no line for the AI strategy and no mention of artificial intelligence in the ICT sections. Kenya: Office of the Controller of Budget (cob.go.ke), 2 Nov 2026
Kenya: Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (ict.go.ke): Strategy launch release (27 Mar 2025); 'Kenya National AI Strategy 2025-2030 Implementation Roadmap' (144 pp., December 2025); policy-documents page and the public-participation page for the draft AI and Emerging Technologies Policy 2026. No budget, cost or spending figure; the roadmap names the Microsoft–G42 US$1 billion pledge. (The site's certificate chain is rejected by one curl trust store; read with the system trust store.) Kenya: Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (ict.go.ke), 2 Nov 2026
Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030, final text (copy hosted by data4sdgs.org): Full strategy, March 2025, 91 pp. (25.2 MB; pages 1–2, 24 and 54 kept as text with SHA-256). Financing addressed only as 'options and avenues'; no cost or budget; names the Microsoft–G42 US$1 billion commitment. Kenya Artificial Intelligence Strategy 2025–2030, final text (copy hosted by data4sdgs.org), 2 Nov 2026
Kenya: The National Treasury (treasury.go.ke): Programme-based budget estimates for FY 2025/26 and FY 2026/27. Not opened: the site's TLS certificate had expired and both curl trust stores refused it. Kenya: The National Treasury (treasury.go.ke), 2 Nov 2026
Nigeria: Budget Office of the Federation (budgetoffice.gov.ng): 2025 Appropriation Act as passed (2,185 pp.) and 2026 Appropriation Act details (2,635 pp.), full text searched for artificial intelligence, AI, NCAIR, NITDA, high-performance computing, GPU, sovereign AI and large language model; the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy's capital schedules read in full. No line for the National AI Strategy, NITDA or NCAIR; the Ministry of Science line ERGP30140924 (NGN 2,045,000 in 2025, NGN 1,431,500 in 2026); a 'development of high performance computer' line elsewhere in 2025; constituency AI-training projects. Budget implementation reports (MDA-level, not project-level) and the Open Treasury payments portal were not searched, as no programme line exists to trace. Nigeria: Budget Office of the Federation (budgetoffice.gov.ng), 2 Nov 2026
Rwanda: Ministry of ICT and Innovation and Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (minict.gov.rw, minecofin.gov.rw): National AI Policy as published by MINICT (23-pp. summary; identical file at the policy page link and the earlier dumpFile link; a 22-pp. copy hosted by WHO); MINECOFIN publication pages; web search for 2025/26 budget documents by programme. The policy describes an implementation plan with budgets but prints no amount; MINECOFIN's publications and budget pages returned 404 and only headline 2025/26 budget totals were found. No AI budget line or spending figure. Rwanda: Ministry of ICT and Innovation and Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (minict.gov.rw, minecofin.gov.rw), 2 Nov 2026
African Union (au.int): Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy (July 2024, 66 pp.); Executive Council decisions EX.CL/Dec.1352–1363 (XLIX), July 2026 (67 pp.), including the revision of the AU's 2026 budget. No budget or cost for the strategy; resource mobilisation in general terms only; AI appears in policy language, not in any budget line. African Union (au.int), 2 Nov 2026
Smart Africa (smartafrica.org): Home page, reports page link, Africa AI Council launch release (November 2025). No budget, financial statements or spending figure for AI. Smart Africa (smartafrica.org), 2 Nov 2026
Still open
Kenya's programme-based budget estimates could not be opened (treasury.go.ke certificate expired); whether any FY 2025/26 or FY 2026/27 vote funds the AI strategy beyond the ICT programmes shown by the Controller of Budget is unverified.
The KES 152 billion attributed to Kenya's strategy is in neither the strategy nor its roadmap as read; its government source is unverified.
Rwanda's costed implementation plan (US$76.5 million per the press) and the budget of the national AI agency the Cabinet reportedly approved in 2026 were not found in any government document reached.
Whether NITDA or NCAIR publish budgets or audited accounts showing AI-strategy spending outside the Appropriation Act: unverified.
The record's notes mention South Africa's CHPC, but South Africa is not among the record's named governments; it was not researched.
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