Nansana · Uganda Pilot live · 2026 Registered UG + IE

Offline AI,
built where
Africa actually lives.

Nambi, our teacher, is an AI that runs entirely on a $50 device, with zero internet. Today she teaches ICT for $1.30 a student. Tomorrow the same engine carries health guidance, farming advice, civic info, and the first AI that thinks in Luganda, Swahili and Acholi. Off-grid, off-cloud, on the continent's own terms.

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Ssente · Cost / student

$1.30

Wi-Fi needed

Tewali · None

Students live now

150

Illustrative · Ugandan classroom

Programme: Nurture Africa VTC

A computer class in Uganda is often an empty room.

The curriculum exists. The timetable exists. The hardware, sometimes, exists. What doesn't exist is the qualified teacher, the Wi-Fi, or the $80/month budget for a platform that assumes all three.

No
teachers.

Qualified ICT teachers are rare across Ugandan secondary schools. Most timetables list a computer lesson with no one qualified to deliver it.

MoES Uganda, 2024

$80
per month.

Average individual income. Mobile data takes a significant share. Every existing EdTech tool assumes a monthly subscription most students cannot pay.

UBOS, 2023

70%+
unemployed.

Of Ugandan youth are unemployed or underemployed. Employers consistently cite lack of basic digital skills as a primary barrier to hiring.

World Bank, 2024

No
Wi-Fi.

Much of Uganda has no reliable internet and intermittent power. Every cloud AI stops the moment the connection drops. Most of the school day.

NITA-U, 2024

What is technically new about this.

Nambi is not a chatbot wrapper. It is a full on-device AI tutor, a classroom data engine, and the seed for an African-language foundation model. All offline. All on hardware the continent already owns.

The Breakthrough

A real AI. No internet. On a $50 device.

Nambi runs a genuine large language model entirely on-device. No cloud, no API calls, no connection. The AI loads, reasons, and responds on hardware that costs less than a month's salary for most Ugandan workers. This is not a quiz engine.

The Data Flywheel

Every session trains the next generation of Nambi.

Every question asked, every answer given, every correct and incorrect response is logged locally. Aggregated and anonymised, this creates something that has never existed before: a dataset of how African students learn, built from African classrooms.

The Language Layer

AI that speaks Luganda. Then Swahili. Then Acholi.

Current AI models are trained almost entirely on English. Nambi's classroom interactions are generating training data for the first AI that genuinely thinks in Ugandan languages. Not translated from English, but built from Uganda.

The Architecture

One engine. Any subject. Any language. Any country.

Nambi's offline AI architecture is subject-agnostic. ICT skills today. Vocational trades tomorrow. Same engine, different curriculum. Same model, different language. Built to replicate across East Africa without infrastructure as a prerequisite.

Meet Nambi. An AI tutor that never needs a Wi-Fi password.

Skills that get people hired.

Word, Excel, data entry, email, digital filing. The exact skills Ugandan employers list in job adverts. Testable, practical, taught through conversation. Not textbooks that age on a shelf.

AI that adapts per learner.

Instant explanations, local logs for teachers, per-student progress for administrators. Identifies exactly where each student is struggling. No qualified teacher needs to be in the room.

Completely offline. Always on.

The model runs entirely on the device. Once set up, Nambi works at any power level, with zero data cost. One device. One programme. No subscription, no surprise bill.

Evidence out of the box.

Every session is logged automatically. Dashboards for programme managers. CSV export for grant reporting. All generated locally. No extra software, no internet connection required.

Students working on a shared laptop in a Ugandan classroom — Illustrative · Ugandan classroom Programme site: Nansana, Uganda

The grant-ready evidence pack.

Every claim on this page is traceable to field data, registered entities, or a named partner. Full pack (methodology, session logs, outcome metrics, audited accounts) available on request to funders.

Pilot outcomes: Term 1, 2026

150

Students in active programmeNurture Africa VTC · Nansana, Uganda

Log · 2026

+38%

Avg. quiz score improvementWeek 1 baseline → Week 8 post-test

Internal · v0.4

92%

Weekly attendance retentionAcross 8-week ICT programme cycle

Local logs

$1.30

Fully-loaded cost per student / termHardware amortised + operations + curriculum

Q1 P&L

REGISTERED

Legal & governance

Entity

Akaalo Ltd

Uganda

Registered 2023 · URSB

Ireland

Registered 2025 · CRO

Founder

Nansana-based · bio on request

Audit

Annual · local CPA firm

Data

GDPR + UG DPA compliant

How $1.30 / student breaks down

54% · Curriculum & AI

22% · Hardware

16% · Local staff

8% · Admin

ICT today.
Everything else next.

The classroom is our proof point. The same offline engine, on hardware Africa already owns, in languages Africa already speaks, does not stop at the school gate. Every sector told to wait for better internet can stop waiting.

Health · Obulamu

A clinic
on a motorbike.

Community health workers, kilometres from any signal. Offline AI on a $50 phone triages symptoms, doses paediatric medicine, flags danger signs in pregnancy. In Luganda or Swahili, without a data bundle.

Agriculture · Okulima

An agronomist
in the pocket.

Smallholders losing harvests to pests they cannot name, at markets they cannot price. Offline AI answers what is eating my maize and when do I plant. Answered in the farmer's own language, on a feature phone.

Public services · Gavumenti

Government
that answers back.

Land titles, benefits, tax forms, legal rights. All explained in plain Acholi or Swahili, at the sub-county office, without the query routing through Nairobi or London. Civic AI that works where the state actually is.

Literacy · Okusoma

A patient tutor
for adults.

Millions of African adults never learned to read in their mother tongue, let alone English. Offline AI is the first scalable 1-to-1 tutor that can sit with them patiently, for as long as it takes. No class, no teacher, no data plan.

Trades · Emirimu

A master craftsman
on the bench.

Electricians, mechanics, tailors, masons. Offline AI explains a wiring diagram, diagnoses a gearbox, teaches a new pattern. All from the back of a roadside workshop, with no Wi-Fi and no excuse.

Sovereignty · Obwetwaze

AI that belongs
to the continent.

Each sector above, trained on African data, in African languages, running on African-owned devices. Not an API rented from a foreign hyperscaler. Infrastructure the continent can actually own, operate, and export.

From one laptop in Nansana
to the offline AI standard.

Stage 01 / Now

Proof in a classroom.

ICT skills training with Nurture Africa VTC. 150 students, live. $1.30 per student per term. Proving the hardware, the offline AI, and the unit cost. The wedge that unlocks every sector after it.

2026 · Nansana

Stage 02 / Next

Clinics, farms, trades.

Same engine, new curriculum. Offline triage for community health workers. Pest, weather and market guidance for smallholder farmers. Vocational trades. The subject changes; the cost model holds.

2026 Q3 · Uganda-wide

Stage 03 / Building

African-language AI.

The first foundation model trained on real African classroom and field data. Luganda first, then Swahili, then Acholi. AI that stops translating from English and starts thinking in the languages of its users.

2027 · East Africa

Stage 04 / Vision

The offline layer.

Nambi becomes the offline AI layer for the Global South. Education, health, agriculture, public services. Any subject, any language, any $50 device. Deployed without waiting for better infrastructure.

2028+ · Pan-African

Who we're looking for.

Uganda (2023) · Ireland (2025). Seeking grant funders, research partners, and hardware donations to scale.

Grant bodies

Proven model.
Measurable outcomes.

Per-student cost ($1.30/term), session logs, quiz deltas, and 8-week outcome metrics from our live pilot. Full evidence pack, unit economics, and entity docs on request.

Grant-ready evidence pack
Audited UG + IE accounts
Outcome-linked reporting

Request evidence pack →

Research partners

Data that exists
nowhere else.

Every session generates grounded interaction data from real African classrooms, in African languages, on offline devices. A corpus no hyperscaler can scrape and no foreign lab can replicate. The substrate for the world models the Global South will need: learning today; health, farming, civic life next.

First-of-its-kind Luganda / Swahili / Acholi corpus
Grounded in real low-bandwidth, low-literacy contexts
In discussion: Masakhane · Makerere AI Lab

Explore a partnership →

Hardware partners

Devices equal
immediate scale.

Nambi runs on low-powered laptops and tablets with 4GB+ RAM, from $50 upwards. 20 devices can run a full cohort. No ongoing internet costs. Hardware is the only scaling constraint.

Refurbished laptops · welcome
New tablets · 4GB+ RAM
Logistics handled in Nansana

Donate hardware →

$1.30 teaches one student.
$130 runs a device for years.

Not a subscription. Permanence. One payment covers curriculum, device time, and a locally-paid operator for a full school term. No renewal. No recurring cost.

$1.301 student
1 full term

$1301 device
~150 students / term

$1,950Full cohort
150 students

For businesses

Corporate sponsorship

$1,9501 cohort
150 students

$3,9002 cohorts
300 students

CustomFull school
partnership

RenewExisting sponsor
next term

Named cohorts, co-branded devices, quarterly impact reports, and a site visit to Nansana. Every sponsorship is linked to a real outcome: students, sessions, quiz scores.

Get a sponsorship pack →

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Offline AI,
built where
Africa actually lives.