Conversations on Africa

Critiques of African Data Sovereignty and Data Localization policies

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Yes, it is true that African countries provide valuable data services for foreign digital platforms like Meta, Google, Amazon, and more. For example, in these foreign platforms, raw data from Africa is analysed and monetised (used for data brokering, bartering or targeting). Africans also provide data extraction and labelling services to these foreign platforms. Yet […]

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Don’t Trust the Government with AI: A Case Against State Regulation

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I am taking a graduate policy seminar on Artificial Intelligence. Today’s topic is  “AI – Ethical problems and Legal solutions.” My amazing professor, Dr James Rogers, has invited the Palantir Whistleblower, Mr. Juan Sebastian Pinto, and he is speaking to us about the evils of AI: “AI is bad for the environment, look at how

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Nigeria Still in Search of Democracy : governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

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Two days ago I read a research paper by Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution, titled “Nigeria in Search of Democracy.” It was written 42 years ago, in 1983: a period when Nigeria’s civilian government under President Shehu Shagari collapsed and gave way to the military rule of General Muhammadu Buhari. Diamond, then a political

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