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/Country
Uganda
21/100
attention index
attention index
Attention higher than 7% of countries
#146 of 157 countries · methodology v0.6 · 11 Nov 2026
The country in the five views
- Attention21
- Adoption · single source8
- Regulation54
- Problems and attacks25
- Opportunities31
/Why this colour
how it is computedReported incidents0
no incidents recorded (counts as missing data)
AI exposure10
percentile among countries
Generative AI use in the population: 8.0% (2026-Q2) · Microsoft AI Diffusion Report
Missing safeguards61
100 minus the safeguards percentile among countries: higher means fewer safeguards
Regulatory quality: -0.59 (2025) · World Bank
Rule of law: -0.67 (2025) · World Bank
Voice and accountability: -1.01 (2025) · World Bank
The state and AI
how it is computedNot part of the attention index
Openness to AI
66
Exposure to threats
40
as a target 19 · as a cause 60
Open, little exposedMedia coverage: medium (158 AI articles citing the country in the last 32 days)
Why this value
Exposure to threats = 50% × 19.4 (as a target) + 50% × 60 (as a cause) = 39.7
Reported cyber attacks against institutions and foreign disinformation
Social media monitoring, government disinformation, AI surveillance, spyware, internet shutdowns
What protects
Government access to personal data (V-Dem, expert scale)29
Rule of law (0-100 score)48
2025 · World Bank
Data protection law100
2026-11 · UNCTAD — Global Cyberlaw Tracker
Rules on AI used by the state (GIRAI)14
Shown alongside, not subtracted from the exposure
What we cannot see
We count reported cyber attacks, not all those that happened; there is no worldwide measure of threats made with AI; for surveillance and spyware the sources stop at 2022-2024.
/What we cannot see
Incidents never reported by the press · reports of serious incidents sent to the authorities and not published · systems registered in the non-public part of the EU database.
/Incidents by period
in the country0
last 6 months
0
6-12 months ago
0
12-24 months ago
/Reported incidents
0 in 24 monthsNo incidents recorded by the sources in the last 24 months. It does not mean that none happened: it often means little press coverage.
/Laws and safeguards
Regulatory quality-0.59
2025 · World Bank
Rule of law-0.67
2025 · World Bank
Voice and accountability-1.01
2025 · World Bank
AI-specific laws and authorities: coming with new sources.
/In the news
how it worksAI news mentioning the country · 7 Nov – 13 Nov
- 新华鲜报｜世界媒体峰会上，北京亮出AI"新名片"-新华网 (opens in a new tab)xinhuanet.com · China · 8 Nov 2026 · and 1 other outlet
- blackNgreen's AI Platforms Now Reach 225 Million People Across Africa, Bringing First-Time Credit to Over a Million and New Revenue to the Continent's Telcos (opens in a new tab)businessdayghana.com · Ghana · 13 Nov 2026
- China's Open-Source AI Ecosystem Fuels Global Innovation--China Economic Net (opens in a new tab)en.ce.cn · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Op-Ed: What the AI Discourse On African Literature Misses (opens in a new tab)okayafrica.com · South Africa · 13 Nov 2026
- Uganda: the president warns of cross-border fraud as criminals exploit AI (opens in a new tab)allafrica.com · Nigeria · 13 Nov 2026
- Will Uganda's youth power the AI economy, or be left behind by it? (opens in a new tab)independent.co.ug · Uganda · 13 Nov 2026
- Video of a foreigner singing Chinese songs may be an AI adaptation; deepfake technology draws attention (opens in a new tab)china.com · China · 13 Nov 2026
- Kenya's Satlyt Among 10 Startups Joining Google's Applied AI Lab : TechMoran (opens in a new tab)techmoran.com · Kenya · 12 Nov 2026
- Satlyt joins Google Africa Applied AI Lab as one of ten selected startups (opens in a new tab)kenya-today.com · Kenya · 12 Nov 2026
- The Best AI in Education Ministries Is a 1962 Matching Algorithm (opens in a new tab)ictworks.org · United States · 12 Nov 2026
AI articles mentioning the country in the last 30 days: 152 in total, at most 32 in one day (4 Nov 2026).
152 AI articles mentioning the country in 30 days
/Index trend
— country ··· worldIndex trend: 18 Oct 2026: country 21, world 36 · 19 Oct 2026: country 21, world 36 · 26 Oct 2026: country 21, world 36 · 2 Nov 2026: country 21, world 36 · 11 Nov 2026: country 21, world 36.
Previous years, reconstructed with today's data: 2023 insufficient data · 2024 insufficient data · 2025 insufficient data why
/AI models released
12 months · outside the indexNo releases recorded by Epoch AI for organisations in this country.