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A lot of support for that ok sylvia how does this sound to you is this a concept that you would buy and i feel like fighting when were out but its fine . its a concept that is really necessary if at all those countries own their own data and as fronts seed we have to develop our own. the a w ss of this world they are based in africa for africa and other ways our detail will never be in the continent forever so its a good idea as long as the is based in the african continent and controlled by the...

Are trying to tackle the whole idea of climate change and ensuring that you transcend that by using beater to to make sure youre making better does the seans are the right thing so if on the hierarchy of needs data and the human touch which comes 1st. morra thats where you for me i think they go together because with data we can really have human centered solutions and data is not just coming from people obviously its important but theres a potential as we heard before to harness data from thing...

You feel that for example sadek as a region is sitting down and collectively thinking about this issue. what was in some initial policy being drafted i mean within the the context of south africa we see the the uk which shows a lot in common within the context of g d p o and its gradually being implemented all we moving quick enough is or is the question rights and implementation. its like that and you know its generally the sense that its not. been well implement eccentric search rules in the p...

A sense of more paranoia but then theres a specific concrete commitments on the policy side. side and nurturing the job creation piece you know we talked about the skills in asia where i spent a fair amount of time in the 1990 s. i saw a lot of parallels but all this opportunity skill but there was much more a focus on education at the state of the stem science levels and i think that needs to be picked up. thats another ingredient we didnt talk about as much you know sort of core educational sk...

Within south africa i dont know if we can come up with a common ethics framework let along around the world an indication of machine learning and artificial intelligence the people are not writing the algorithm its being derived from the data so to make sure that the data is not bias its coming from trusted source is key and we have a concept and right now we cannot control the algorithms theyre developed by and its called the black box and i problem and a lot of money is being spent on transpar...

D. then from that point is then when you decide which kind of insights youre going to draw for you to make the kind of decisions you want to make so more outlets come to you because silver has already touched on some of the challenges in your mind one of the big ones for africa when it comes to collection and management of storage of data and i want to comment on what. and i agree with your because theres a risk that nations or continents that generate that are important to. potential good use f...

About 13 minutes left for this discussion so i want to ask the question i started to be more at do you think that data is africas new oil the potential is there as you said the population is there their willingness is there the opportunity is there and i see it of willingness from the political leaders and the business community to take advantage of that and if it is indeed the new oil how does africa protect itself from another resource. if you look around the world no country has an advantage ...

A complex africa is not one country right its not one cohort it theres so many issues and alike. but getting ready is is the game and i believe in the underlying fundamentals of the economies and the people. but there needs to be some very specific interventions on the data data policy side more act you have another fascinating idea which is beyond capsulize ing on data and i am what is that about so we were talking to japanese governments the concept of a of marketplace is something were implem...

They can benefit from their use of their data and develop machine learning solutions for the benefit of their citizens and small medium enterprises so think of it as artificial intelligence for a as the countries are developing their data infrastructures which we think they should but some countries may not be as big as nigeria or kenya or south africa they may not have the data and so what do you do it what do we do as a global community do we leave them for ever behind so we develop this idea ...

One metric and a value or another can we trust that data. very good question. obviously the machines are created by the statistical model which are the machines created by humans and humans can decide to be evil or not you saw how a person needs also comes into play in including this statistical models that learn over time and then theyre the ones who decide which decide. what to get but youre going to get on your feed or which kind of information is going to be short on your feet so it depends ...