How can Africa better unlock Data potential? | WEF: Debate at the World Economic Forum in Cape Town

Artificial intelligence's contribution to the global economy is predicted to reach almost $16 trillion by 2030. With the global volume of data expected to quadruple by 2025, how can Africans seize the opportunity? DW’s Edith Kimani takes on the issue at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Cape Town, with Sylvia Makario, head of Geospatial Technologies and co-founder of Hepta Analytics in Kenya, Alex Liu, managing partner and Chairman at A.T. Kearney Inc. in the US, Murat Sönmez, managing director and head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Global Network at the WEF and Frans Cronje, co-founder and CEO at the Data Prophet in South Africa.

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[DWThePercent]

Are you a digital citizen and care about your data? How can Africa better unlock its data potential?

[dinimakhetho]

Great discussion, thanks Kimani for awesome moderation. Thanks Sylvia for focusing on African context.

[alolofelixable]

Moderating @ the WEF, I am proud of you Edith! Go gal and all the very best may your star continue in that trajectory high and higher!😊👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[citizenofdaworld]

Please can someone define Technology physically for me please? Is it to service or to benefits??? What are the motive behide the creation of Technology???

[djibrilyadd]

Clouds are zone of storage of datas and from there applications are done. Keeping and protecting the clouds as data banks is a new power for sovereignty.

[TOracle]

Individuals can still do a lot. Anyone can build a data center. All you need is a computer and internet access. Electricity and internet access are still challenges, but there are places in Africa where both are reliable. Start there. Eventually you can build out things like cloud infrastructure, SaaS, IaaS, and PaaS. There is so much free open source software available, that can be used to build those sorts of things. Building up the electricity and internet infrastructure will make all of these more viable.

[gabriellalaplace]

I hope everyone in the World gets fed.

[rossjn]

Implicit bias plays a large factor in who is creating and manipulating data. It isn’t merely ethical or unethical but what we unconsciously are conditioned to value or not can have the greatest impact.

[thebridge]

I like liu well spoken in regards to Africa

[paulinekisorio]

A big 👎 don't give out our data to strangers please NONONONONO

[olalaoye]

Oil cannot run out and data is important to track money trafficking over seas from Africa

[tenpin]

Where are the black Africa men, they should be on this platform to give their opinion on DATA
information in SOUTH AFRICA? If not this forum should not have gone ahead, shamful

[shakdawit]

Bill Gates, France, China, Belgium and Germany has your data😂

[tenpin]

Talk of Africa but no black Africa men, again stop discussion

[kabelosebolao]

we talking about building Africa but you white folks on the Panel

[hlempheabielsemelane]

You're lying sweetheart the visited city in africa is Cairo Egypt