African Tech for African Problems: Big Tech in Africa

The African tech industry still struggles to define itself: what is African tech? How do you define African tech? What qualifies as an African tech company? Artificial intelligence, despite the name, isn’t intelligent on its own. It is the product of our individual intelligence and collective consciousness manifested through digital outputs and collected on the Internet as data. Technologies, like AI, learn and become better based on the data we make available to it: Apple's Siri, for instanc

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