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Africa's path to artificial intelligence maturity: infrastructure, skills, compute and the politics of who builds what.
A few weeks ago, in his keynote to Kenyans, the president of Kenya admitted that building AI data centers in Kenya (as it is in many countries) is a pipe dream. This followed an agreement signed between Microsoft, The Government of Kenya and G42. He admitted that, to build an efficient data center requires about […]
A few days ago, speaking to a couple friends, I asked them the cliché thing you ask people who do not speak your native language, ‘how do you say ‘hello’ in your mother-tongue?’. My friends are a little over the youth group age, grew up in a setting where they spoke their native language and […]
A couple of weeks ago, I put out a survey on my socials titled ‘AI in Everyday Work & Life: Insights for Policy and Innovation.’ The idea behind this survey was to start to understand how different people are using AI and the new and emerging models in their day to day life, and if […]
Around the world, AI is no longer a futuristic concept but a present-day reality transforming industries and societies. For Africa, embracing AI is a critical step towards economic growth, innovation, and solving unique challenges. However, the path to AI maturity is not linear. It’s a journey best understood as a…
In the timeless parable of the blind men and the elephant, each man touches a different part of the creature; a tusk, a tail, a leg and comes to a wildly different conclusion about what he’s experiencing and what an elephant is to them. One insists it is a spear, another a rope, another a […]
Data continues to be one of the most underrated things when it comes to the conversation about life as we know it today. In the era of emerging technologies, beyond the infrastructure, capacity, investments, algorithms etc, data remains king, it drives everything. On the African continent, the data conversation has…
