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 Microsoft Certified Educator, Microsoft Certified: AI Transformation Leader, AI Policy Fellow at Lawyers Hub, One Million Leaders Africa Fellow and an Institutional Lead for the Google.org–FATE Foundation–AIMS Africa AI Upskilling Programme. He previously lectured at Lancaster University Ghana. 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 Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and is Founder of Jobweb Africa, a leading African job portal across the continent.

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, BlueCrest University, Heritage Christian University, NaCCA, and GTEC. A seasoned reviewer, he contributes to Heliyon, Scientific Reports, Education Sciences, Cluster Computing, PeerJ Computer Science, and 23 other Scopus-indexed journals. He is an active member of ACM and SIGCSE, contributing to scholarly initiatives within the global community.

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 the 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 (Gaborone, 2025). He also serves as a 2026 mentor with the Black in AI Safety and Ethics (BASE) fellowship and participated as a Virtual Delegate at the AI Policy Summer School 2026 (Africa Artificial Intelligence Policy Lab & Lawyers Hub, University of Cape Town), contributing to high-level discussions on AI governance frameworks, data governance, national AI strategies, and responsible AI deployment in Africa. In 2026, he was selected to participate in the Microsoft Africa Development Centre (ADC) Faculty AI Skilling and Immersion Programme, an eight-week initiative focused on strengthening Artificial Intelligence capacity in African higher education through hands-on training, mentorship, and globally recognized certifications.

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.