Real material
Every exercise runs on the documents, data and workflows the group already uses.
Who we are
A training and certification programme for the Global South, run by people who build with these tools in the places they are meant to serve.
Partner with usThe idea
Most AI training is written in the North, for the North, and sold to the South as an import. A newsroom in Accra, a district office in Kerala and a civic lab in Bogotá face different constraints, different material and different risks.
So the curriculum is built on real material, taught by practitioners from the region and assessed on real tasks rather than recall. Certification makes that capability legible to an employer, a funder or a ministry.
How we teach
Project groups
Four groups per programme, each with a deliverable that has to work outside the room.
Assessment on practice
People are assessed on what they produce, not on what they remember.
Critical by default
Limits, bias, cost and data sovereignty are part of the curriculum, not an appendix.
Who teaches
Faculty profiles are being reviewed
Only faculty profiles with publishing consent are shown. Practitioner profiles will not be published as a static directory.
View the faculty page →Who issues the certificates
GSAF — Global South Academic Forum
GSAF signs, registers and answers for every certificate. Each certificate has a unique GAL ID, QR code and public register entry. Anyone can verify it without an account.
Check a certificate →Issued is not endorsed
Issued by GSAF means GSAF is accountable for the certificate. Endorsement requires a signed agreement. No endorsement is claimed anywhere until one exists.
Endorsement
Categories and status only. Negotiations are never presented as agreements.
Founding issuance
Issued by GSAF
Certificates issued under GSAF authority alone.
Governments
In negotiation
Public-sector adoption. No agreement is claimed yet.
Open-source communities
In negotiation
Technical endorsement. No agreement is claimed yet.
Universities
In negotiation
Academic recognition of levels. No agreement is claimed yet.
Community
Trainers
A network of practitioners who teach across programmes and regions.
Alumni
Participants stay connected through the registry, library and credential-aware Community.
Partners
Organizations that host programmes and open their material to them.
What participants say
Testimonials will be collected from the first programmes and published here, with each participant’s consent and organization named.