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African Institute for the Development of Infrastructure (AfIDI)
The vision of the AfIDI is to amplify public-private industry growth and development, with a vested interest to empower African small and medium scale enterprise and multinationals to participate in building a robust infrastructure framework, protocols and policy path for the continent. And for the overall interest of Made in Africa (MIA) industry and infrastructure investment businesses, goods and services – with a cardinal motive to enhance quality and promote African Best Practices (ABP).
Africa University of Industrialization, Innovation & Infrastructure (AfUIII)
The AfUIII is a transition from the AfIDI Leadership institution, proposed to be first premier African University with a commitment to empower African infrastructure and industry related professional on resilient infrastructure, promote sustainable industrialization and foster innovation on the continent. The AfUIII is established (still at its incubation stage) to prepare Africa’s public and private sectors managers, as well as relevant stakeholders to critical shape, re-invent and review Africa’s industrial revolution (with emphasis to 4IR, 5IR, etc.) for the next four (4) decades.
Cheetah Project
AI-Group founded the Cheetahs project as a non-profit innovation and technology solutions, designed to focus in tackling the overall unemployment challenges in Africa, using disruptive technology solutions to power learning (Machine learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, etc.), knowledge and ability to expand African emerging market and business champions of the new. The Cheetah’s Project was founded in 2019, with a flagship commencement of 2021 (due to the interference of COVID-19 pandemic) with a vision that, by the end of 2030, it would have trained and connected about 5,000 emerging industry sector businesses in Africa, with more than 300% financial linkages to unpack and unbundle the Africa AfCFTA Market; raising potentials resources, sales, deals and production by 70%. The Cheetah Project is capable of creating jobs for Africa’s teaming youths and women.
Rethinking Africa Project (RAP)
With the concept of the “Labouratory”, the AI-Group Inc is positioned to reshape, rethink and design Africa enabling industrial growth that seeks to empower critical industry thinkers and managers – a fraternity of industry sector colleagues, inspired to use innovative groundbreaking ideals and solutions to redesign Africa. The flagship will include the training of 50 Industry Tech Accelerators (ITA) Alumni targeting about 30 pilot countries in Africa known as the “Studio Labs”. Our innovation, technology and industry sector designers and experts will work with our clients to create groundbreaking products, services and experiences.
Africa First Project
AI-Group Inc. with its offices in the 55 African Union member countries, our core mandate to serve clients across public and private sectors. The AFP is a rotary of technology and practical solutions, designed and promoted by the Group and its subsidiary companies. The Imara Soko LTD, African Industrialization Development LTD and Censored Consult LTD are on a focus to scale the Group and position it for opportunities globally. The Imara Soko LTD ultimately is a promoter of technology solutions such as “Imara App”, “Imara Market Place”, “BuyAfrica Market” and the “Made in Africa Brands”. The focus is to design locally competitive solutions that will ultimately optimize regional value chains and promotes value addition to products and services. The AFP is to also amplify outreach in African research and development, supporting universities and institutions to explore integrated and reverse engineering solutions. Through “Africa First Project” the AI-Group Inc. and its subsidiaries has a commitment to develop next-generation pan-African 5th Industrial Revolution sector value operations, with a keen investment to promote Africa as key priority in the global arena.
AfricaDisrupt Technology Labs
Because it is new initiative, we are starting as an informal IT service to help clients and AI-Group’s teams create proofs of concept; AfricaDisrupt Technology Labs grow into a thriving technology provider with series of patented African based technologists and technologies with linkage to research institutions across African Universities. This capability would help our clients put AI-Group’s recommendations into practice quickly by using agile development and rapid prototyping to build apps and other custom software. AI-Group’s target is to position itself to consciously power disruption by disrupting itself, through innovative consulting to meet the rapidly evolving needs of our clients.
Made in Africa
To disrupt productive, raw material and manufacturing architectures, the AI-Group Inc. will flagship several Made in Africa (MiA) liaison offices on the continent with a subsidiary channel to cultivate clients, while committing to the overall development of the continent. We will focus on market potentials and commerce value chain structures, with a target to disrupt supply and demand curves, ease the movement of Made in Africa goods, services and Africans across borders. Our presence in Africa is estimated to grow in the next from just a handful of people to more than pan-African Industry sector 2000 consultants globally
Africa Research and Development Network (ARDN)
With an Africa Research and Development Network (ARDN), our firm is determined to establish an independent think tank to improve understanding of fundamental economic issues facing organizations and the continent simultaneously; providing support for research innovations and technologies to boost infrastructure resilience in Africa. The ADRN’s research agenda will cover competitiveness, financial markets, industrial growth, technology solutions, healthcare, innovation, inclusive labor markets, natural/mineral resources exploration, productivity, technology, urbanization and governance.
AI-Group Quarterly
Our flagship business publication, “AI-Group Quarterly”, will be the defining and informing disruption in the overall implementation of our services and contribution to Africa’s socioeconomic transformation in the senior-management agenda of the firm, designed to separate signals from the noise in the accelerated patterns in the continent’s Industrialization Agenda. There are two components in the over issues that the AI-Group Quarterly will feed; the “Magazine” – ‘Africa Journals of Industries, Trade, Infrastructure and Minerals – AJITIM’ and two parts of the “Related Issues” that will feed;
- Monographic Columns (The Energy & Infrastructure Mind: De-contaminating Industrial Transformation Bias series)
- Research Disruption Papers.
Consortiums & Daughter Companies
Imara Soko Group
The ISG-LTD is a pan-African economic and industry-based drive for the potential market framework for Made-In and Buy Africa products and services, designed and originating from Africa. The ISG-LTD is currently developing its flagship e-commerce “Imara Applications (iMaraApp)” APIs. The API allows as well as enabling vendors and visitors to sell and buy products at a locally competitive community level prices and options, or expand businesses across inter and intra Africa market ecosystem.
Censored Consult Group
CCG-LTD is a Quality Infrastructure and Assurance Excellence Group established to support best practices, exclusively for private sector firms, and jointly assist in the establishment processes of standards and technology solutions, through management and policy consulting strategy towards building effective, inclusive and thorough systems for high-end and measurable services for its clientele.
African Private Sector Alliance Group
The APSAG-LTD is an African-centric alliance for the mobilization, support and multi-industry synergies to boost cross-cutting industrial, entrepreneurial and market activities for goods and services on the continent. It emphasis is to implement to fruition inter and intra Africa Trade, support local processing, representing an undisputed potential for the socio-economic development of African business. The APSAG-LTD agenda is to squarely address economic inequalities and build industry-synergies along value chain platforms in Africa. The focus is to invest in local valorization which often play a significant role in the fight against poverty, Jobs and wealth creations for production, manufacturing and services to supply affordable pan-African skills and partnerships for a generation of income for local communities, and the rise of new African corporates. The priority of APSAG-LTD includes issues related to productivity, sustainability, industrial capacity, and the lack of a legal and institutional framework which ultimately hinders the development of Africa’s promising private sectors and their build up to a formidable economic alliance.
Buy Africa Market Group
The BAM-Group LTD is the major driver of the BuyAfrica Marketplace flagship of the AI-Group Inc. Holdings LTD – a one-stop-shop marketplace for Made in Africa Products – goods and services near you. It was established to support local manufacturing ecosystem to grow from raw materials to manufacturing and supply retaining to wholesale B2B vendoring and distribution. The e-commerce portal to power online trading, and provide access to vendor database of the BAM is the “Dot BuyAfrica” digital domain technology for data handling and market shelving for goods and services designed, developed and manufactured in Africa and by Africans. The ambition is to grow local SMEs and support their growth into African global corporation.
African Mining & Solid Minerals Group
The AMSM-Group LTD is a multisector mining ecosystem for more than 200 multi-stakeholders and industry leaders from the Mining, Solid Minerals, Trade, Investment Commission and relevant Ministries from African Union member countries. The Private sector entity is pious to provide shared-solutions on the Minerals, Extractive, Mining, Beneficiation, Management, Financing, Development, Value Addition and Value Chain development in Africa. The private sector group is committed to deepening shared progress on African best practices. The AMSM-Group LTD is has an ambition to accelerate a mineral market platform that seeks to enable sector practitioners from public and private sector on joint sustainable service delivery, and efficient development in the mining and extractive industry in Africa.
African Critical Infrastructure & Industrial Management Group (ACIIMG)
African Critical Infrastructure and Industrial Management Group is a private asset management consultancy, providing condition inspection, industry systems automations, personnel management gaps, analysis, tactical works planning and strategic capital renewal programs for critical (digital and physical) and quality infrastructure for Africa.
The ACIIM-Group is an eco-system of membership that cut across multisector industries, academia, government, workforce and economic development organizations, working together to accelerate the adoption of quality infrastructure, industrialization, technology, reverse engineering and the continent’s national global manufacturing competitiveness.
The ACIIM-Group was established for the sole Investment in the Development of Africa through, through a competitive production and supply chain capacitation and technology solutions in accelerate quality infrastructure, to deliver an industrial capacity for the continent of Africa, post-COVID-19 economic recovery.