AI is Africa’s New Growth Mantra, but Can it Fix Development?

Author(s)
Hassan, Y.
Publication language
English
Date published
25 Sep 2023
Type
Blogs
Keywords
Data approaches, Data ethics, Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

With international agencies increasingly touting AI as a technological fix for the economic travails of the Global South, a critical stock-staking of such proposed strategies is the need of the hour. Can the entrenched structural problems of Africa really be overcome by the emergent ‘AI-for-Development’ mantra and what might be the wider failings of such a vision? This piece delves into such questions.

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