Prof. Dake, Delali Kwasi

Prof. Delali Kwasi Dake is an Associate Professor of Computing and Information Technology and Head of the Department of ICT Education at the University of Education, Winneba. He is a Global AI Compute Faculty Fellow, among 10 African Professors selected for the 2026 Cohort 2 programme involving the African Union–ASRIC, Beijing Academy of Artificial Intelligence (BAAI) and Peking University. He is a Microsoft Certified Educator, Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader, AI Policy Fellow at Lawyers Hub, One Million Leaders Africa Fellow and Institutional Grant Lead for the Google.org–FATE Foundation–AIMS Africa AI Upskilling Programme. He is also a UNDP–UNESCO–ITU-trained Data Governance Scholar. In 2024, at age 36, he became one of Ghana’s youngest Associate Professors in Computing and IT. He holds a PhD in Computer Engineering from KNUST and is the Founder of Jobweb Africa, a digital recruitment platform operating across Africa.

As Head of Department, Prof. Dake has advanced digital innovation through partnerships with Google, AyaHQ, eTranzact, Huawei, Trainora, ICP Ghana, Binance, LearnWay, and SUI, leading student-industry collaborations with signed institutional MoUs across four. He represented UEW at the Africa Premier AI Conference 2025 in Kenya, and presented in-person in Dubai at ICCDTA 2025 on AI-driven employability models for Sub-Saharan Africa.

He serves as an Examiner/Assessor/Writer for IUM (Namibia), KNUST, UPSA, USTED, UENR, BlueCrest University, Heritage Christian University, NaCCA, and GTEC. He is an Associate Editor of SN Social Sciences (Springer) and Cogent Education–ICT in Education (Taylor & Francis), and Editorial Board Member of Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (Springer), overseeing research in AI, IT, digital transformation, and education. A seasoned reviewer, he contributes to Heliyon, Scientific Reports, Cluster Computing, PeerJ Computer Science, and over 30 Scopus-indexed journals.

Beyond academia, Prof. Dake serves on the Academic Advisory Council of Mogaland Academy, representing Africa and Ghana; the Board Chair of Innville Foundation, promoting innovation and youth entrepreneurship; and the Board of Turbines IT Company, advancing ICT and digital skills development.

He has delivered keynote and invited talks at major global summits, including BITs Tech Fair, Africa Fintech Summit, Digital Asset Summit, Ghana Youth Tech Summit, TeProD, Ghana Data Science Summit, the 6th Biennial AI Conference in Abuja, and many more.

As a member of ACM Working Group 5, he contributed to a Global South–focused ethical framework for AI in higher education, presented at the ACM Computing Conference in Gaborone (2025). He also serves as a 2026 mentor with the Black in AI Safety and Ethics fellowship. In the same year, he was selected for the Microsoft Africa Development Centre (ADC) and was invited to participate in the inaugural United Nations Global Dialogue on AI Governance in Geneva, Switzerland.

He serves as a Partnership Manager for the Ghana AI Research Network (GAIN) and is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE), and the Informing Science Institute (ISI).

His research spans ICTs, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, AI Ethics and Governance, Reinforcement Learning, Intelligent Systems, and Blockchain.