Harnessing artificial intelligence, software engineering, and data science to solve Africa’s most pressing development challenges — at scale, in local languages, and with open-source principles.
Technology has the power to leapfrog decades of development challenges — but only when it is designed for the people who will use it. SATAF’s AI & Technology Division builds tools that work in low-bandwidth environments, local languages, and resource-constrained settings.
From AI-powered health navigation to geospatial data analysis and open-source software, our technology work is always in service of a real human problem. We build with communities, not just for them.
An integrated agentic AI health platform providing multilingual health navigation (Hausa, Fulfulde, English), smart emergency dispatch, and diaspora doctor network for northern Nigeria. Built on Google Gemini and Vertex AI.
Learn MoreBuilding open-source NLP corpora and fine-tuned language models for Hausa and Fulfulde — two major low-resource African languages with limited existing AI support. Our work enables conversational AI and text analysis in these languages.
Using GIS, satellite data, and community surveys to map water access, disease burden, and health facility coverage across northern Nigeria. Our maps inform government resource allocation and SATAF project targeting.
Designing real-time health data dashboards for state government health planners, showing disease surveillance patterns, facility utilisation, resource allocation needs, and population health trends across Gombe State.
All major SATAF technology outputs are open-sourced under permissive licenses (Apache 2.0 / MIT). This includes the AfyaConnect platform, language models, deployment playbooks, and clinical AI safety evaluation frameworks.
Providing technical advisory services to NGOs, government agencies, and development organisations seeking to implement AI, data analytics, and digital health solutions in African contexts. We help organisations avoid common pitfalls in AI deployment.
SATAF is committed to ensuring that every tool we build is available to the broader development community. We believe that open-source AI and software infrastructure is essential for equitable development across Sub-Saharan Africa.
