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Originally published by Capital Newstop
December 8, 2025
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OPINION: Building technology that serves people, not just systems
Whatever one’s politics, Raila Odinga has long stood for participation and the stubborn insistence that citizens must have a say in shaping their destiny. That spirit echoed throughout the day’s theme—Reclaiming Our Data Futures—raising a central question: how do we recla..
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At the Datafest Africa 2025 conference, a false rumor circulated about the death of Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, highlighting the vulnerability of truth in a hyperconnected world. The incident underscored the conference's central theme: reclaiming data futures to ensure technology serves people, not just systems.
- Africa accounts for less than one percent of global data-center capacity, despite mobile data usage growing by approximately 40 percent annually.
- The article emphasizes the need for Africa to move beyond being just a data generator and become a data capturer, asserting data sovereignty for development priorities.
- Antony Kagure, Product Marketing Specialist at the Aga Khan University Data Innovation Office, argues that future systems must be pro-people, ensuring data returns to communities as usable insight.
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