Uganda · Offline AI · ICT Training · 2026
per student, per term. Fully offline.
Nambi runs completely offline on low-powered laptops and tablets from $50. Teaching ICT skills today. Building African-language AI for tomorrow.
Pilot programme · Uganda · 2026
What we are building
AI that runs
where there is
no internet.
Built from
Africa's data.
Qualified ICT teachers are rare across Ugandan secondary schools. Most list computer lessons on the timetable but have no one qualified to deliver them.
Average individual income in Uganda. Mobile data costs take a significant share. Online learning tools are inaccessible for most schools and students.
Of Ugandan youth are unemployed or underemployed. Employers consistently cite lack of basic digital skills as a barrier to hiring young people.
Much of Uganda has no reliable internet and intermittent power. Every existing AI education tool stops when the connection drops.
Nambi runs a genuine large language model entirely on-device. No cloud, no API calls, no data connection. The AI loads, thinks, and responds on hardware that costs less than a month's salary for most Ugandan workers. This is not a quiz engine. It is a real AI tutor.
Every question a student asks, every answer Nambi gives, every correct and incorrect response is logged. This creates something that has never existed before: a growing dataset of how African students learn, built entirely from African classrooms. More students means a smarter model.
Current AI models are trained almost entirely on English-language data. Nambi's classroom interactions are generating African-context training data that will power the first AI that genuinely thinks in Ugandan languages. Not translated. Built from Uganda.
Nambi's offline AI architecture is subject-agnostic. ICT skills today. Vocational trades tomorrow. The same engine, different curriculum. The same model, different language. Built to replicate across Uganda, then East Africa, without internet infrastructure as a prerequisite.
Word, Excel, data entry, email, digital filing. The exact skills Ugandan employers list in job adverts. Practical, testable, taught through conversation not textbooks.
Instant explanations, interaction logs for teachers, per-student progress data for administrators. Identifies exactly where each student is struggling, without a teacher present.
The AI model runs entirely on the device. Once set up, Nambi works in any classroom, at any power level, with zero data cost. One device. One programme. Indefinitely.
Every session logged automatically. Dashboards for programme managers. CSV export for grant reporting. No extra software or internet connection required.
ICT skills training in Uganda. 50 students. 1 device. $1.30/term. Proving the model works: the hardware, the offline AI, the sustainable cost. Building the evidence base.
Vocational trades beyond ICT. WhatsApp delivery for out-of-school youth who have no device but do have a phone. The engine stays. The subject changes.
The first African-language AI tutor trained on Ugandan classroom data. Starting with Luganda. The model stops translating from English and starts thinking in the language of its students.
Nambi becomes the offline AI education layer for the Global South. Any subject. Any language. Any $50 device. Deployed across multiple African countries. The flywheel self-sustains.
Nambi is live in its first ICT training programme. We are collecting session data, quiz scores, and learning outcome results — building the evidence base for scale.
Akaalo is registered in Uganda (2023) and Ireland (2025). Actively seeking grant funding, research partnerships, and hardware support to scale.
Per-student cost data ($1.30/term), session logs, quiz results, and learning outcome metrics from our live pilot. Full evidence pack on request.
View evidence pack →Sponsor a cohort of 150 students for $1,950. Receive quarterly impact reports, co-branded devices, and a site visit to Nansana, Uganda.
View sponsorship tiers →Nambi runs on low-powered laptops with 4GB+ RAM from $50 upwards. 20 devices runs a full cohort of 150 students. No ongoing internet costs.
Donate hardware →$1.30 trains a student for a full term. $130 pays for a device that teaches 70 students a week for years.
Secure payments via Stripe and PayPal. Akaalo Ltd, registered Uganda and Ireland.
Grants and partnerships: hello@akaalo.com
Whether you are a funder, researcher, school, or hardware partner, we want to hear from you.