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Are they doing with it theres not much straight out the moment it. needs to be extracted and collected and its an opportunity and right and i think data and infrastructure should be treated as electricity roads and health care like high priority strategy strategic infrastructure for the government so the potential is there that is locked up theres not much of it and thats the huge upside and theres also the downside risk and if we dont do it small medium enterprises wont be able to keep up. you ...

A little bit wider than just the narrow compliance questions you need to answer so that that brings me back to more at and this idea that you have having a central place where people can band one trade data. so our case is that if you treat data as a commodity much like oil and allow for people to share their data ourselves our data the question is how do you value the thing because it doesnt have built in value so we said what if we again taking off from what i am spying research how do we crea...

That it is the oxygen on the 40 duster of what you said but how do you make something valuable that everyone has access. thank you so currently as we look at it from there have turned electrics perspective is in the african continent and most particularly african governments we have a lot of legacy technologies that do not have the potential to harness the data that is required for them to make valuable and quality decisions so currently we advice anybody who wants to get into that space to to t...

The 4th industrial revolution. i think facebook just had to pay a $200000000.00 fine for allowing players bad players to sort of violate child privacy laws so the intrusion of data data is borderless and some of our laws are within countries and theres 54 countries here and in africa and as i looked at the figures in 2019 of the 54 countries only 24 had any form of formal data legislation in terms of frameworks for how to how to create collect and protect it and the rest either have draft legisl...

A challenge we have so the idea is to really create the infrastructure to generate data and this is where technologies like 5 g. and internet of things come into play but i think it needs to be a national strategy not left to individual companies because its too big and if you can instrument the fields if we can instrument the oceans we can collect a lot of data and improve our great culture as i mentioned oceans and health and in terms of who owns the data who makes money out of it if you look ...

Raw data print youth to being lucky if he does attention me. its its a its a difficult thing for its the 1st one and i carry with sylvia and has tightened that earlier with we actually need to implement the infrastructure that creates a lot of the data and right now were working all. old infrastructure which isnt producing the data in a manner that is set up for good purposes and then once youve created that almost those pipes its all lets talk about within the oil and energy you want to create ...

Continent has a large gene pool diverse and if you can collect their bodies genetic data i think most of us would volunteer to give it free of charge for curing cancer. but if somebody wants to build a medicine i want to have my consent asked for and im paid so if you can touch the data and i can say if i can put on my data like music anyone wanting to use it for cancer research can use it for ever i dont want to know money but for other purposes as for my consent we can actually do that technic...

A carrier on my extreme right to the head of geospatial technologies and the co-founder of have to analytics based in kenya but also joined by mr alex q who is the managing partner and chairman at 80 kearney if youve been to the world economic forum a few times you might have seen his face on my right my immediate right is mr morris on ms he is the managing director and the head of the center for the 4th industrial revolution right here at the world economic forum host and also doubling up as a ...

A lot within the context of science thats kind of talking to the point on the mobile networks africa from that perspective id like to think leads a lot of the thinking around verbal banking you know just because we can actually step straight into the mobile network spaces because the cop was right let me get to moreto somewhere because were running out of time theres no role model for this it hasnt been done before and i think its time for africa to act now if we dont it may be too late so the o...

Startups weigh in one of the biggest hobbs right now but these technicians have often limits and even city or enterprise level how do we make sure that africa as a whole is enjoying the benefits if you think about the data as a strategic asset just like oil and oxygen youve got to create it youve got to collect it and youve got to protect it and if data is like oil what would you do if someone was taking your oil every day selling it back to you and you could protect it you could protect the pip...