When I prod Nigerians, friends, classmates and mentors about the possibility of the Nigerian government sharing in the value that foreign digital global platforms gain from our data they are immediately skeptical. And for good reason: why should the government have access to the profits of a private company’s hard work? Instagram and Facebook are
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I spent the majority of my summer reading consumer fraud cases in the New York Attorney General’s Office. No case wasthe same, I read cases in every industry you could imagine: automobile, internet provision, entertainment, online delivery services, housing, and many more. Still, each case brought with it its own lessons to be learned which
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In democratic countries, the media is the arena where politics and political ideas are framed and contested. Citizens rely on the media to understand the condition of their country or stay informed about other recent and important events Historically, legacy media institutions held a monopoly on shaping whatever information that was available to the public.
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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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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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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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