Africa's $100 trillion opportunity hides in its broken systems

Africa has the brains. What it’s missing is infrastructure. Only five per cent of AI researchers have enough computing power...

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Africa has a $100 trillion opportunity by fixing its broken systems, much like Elon Musk’s SpaceX built foundational infrastructure before launching rockets. The continent needs to move beyond just identifying problems and instead focus on addressing root causes and building robust infrastructure.

A Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher, Joy Buolamwini, found a 35 percent error rate for facial recognition software on darker-skinned women, compared to less than one percent for light-skinned men, due to biased data.
Rwanda digitized all its land records, resolving disputes in weeks and attracting investors, demonstrating the impact of building better systems.
Only five percent of AI researchers in Africa have sufficient computing power, with a single high-powered Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) costing up to $40,000 (Sh5.1 million), representing 75 percent of Kenya’s GDP per capita.
Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda are rolling out national databases for land, health, and education, but these pilot projects need to scale up to reach everyone.

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