Qhala Trust
Building Africa's digital infrastructure

Our Work

Building Africa's Digital Infrastructure

We design and deploy real, working digital and AI systems — built for African languages, institutions, and realities, not adapted from elsewhere as an afterthought.

Voice AI

Ndimi

NdimiAI

A full-stack African voice AI platform

NdimiAI addresses the deep underrepresentation of African languages and accents in global AI systems. Combining large-scale data collection, deployable speech models, and applied research, it advances multilingual voice systems that actually work for African speakers — not as an afterthought, but from the ground up.

  • Large-scale African language data collection
  • Deployable speech recognition & synthesis models
  • Multilingual voice system research
  • Support for African accents across dialects
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NdimiAI

Media Intelligence

Nation Media Group

NMG AI Media Intelligence

Turning 60 years of journalism into living intelligence

An AI-powered system transforming over 60 years of content from Nation Media Group — one of Kenya's largest media networks — into a structured, searchable, insight-generating resource. It gives journalists and researchers the ability to surface patterns, context, and connections across decades of reporting at speed.

  • 60+ years of NMG archive digitised and structured
  • Semantic search across decades of reporting
  • AI-generated insights and pattern detection
  • Purpose-built for journalists and researchers
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NMG AI Media Intelligence

Sovereign AI

Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

KIPPRA Sovereign AI

Building Kenya's sovereign AI planning infrastructure

A partnership with KIPPRA to build a sovereign, AI-powered data and planning system for Kenya. The platform integrates fragmented government data across ministries and agencies, shifting from traditional econometric modelling to AI-driven predictive planning — with strong governance principles and human-centred design at its core.

  • Cross-ministry data integration and unification
  • AI-driven predictive economic planning
  • Sovereign infrastructure with strong data governance
  • Human-centred design throughout
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KIPPRA Sovereign AI

Data Platform

County-Level Governance Infrastructure

Garissa County Integrated Data Platform

A governance-first model for county-level AI

A governance-first data and AI infrastructure initiative unifying fragmented departmental data into a single, secure, production-grade system. It enables real-time intelligence for county decision-makers — and creates a scalable, replicable model for county-level data governance that other counties across Kenya can adopt.

  • Unified platform across county departments
  • Secure, production-grade infrastructure
  • Real-time intelligence for decision-makers
  • Replicable model for Kenya county governments
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Garissa County Integrated Data Platform

  • 20+

    African languages targeted

  • 3

    sovereign platforms deployed

  • 60+

    years of media content structured

  • 47

    Kenyan counties to scale to

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Whether you are a government agency, media institution, or research body — we build with you, not for you. Get in touch to explore what we can design and deploy together.