Investors urged to finance data to match digital transformation

• Africa has the human capital in order to achieve the adoption of AI, there needs to be a fundamental act of investing in education. • There are less than a million software developers in the whole of Africa. AI Centre of Excellence founder John Kamara speaking during the AI for Leaders Summit held in Nairobi Image: DOUGLAS OKIDDY Investors have been urged to invest in data transformation in order to match digital transformation across Africa. AI Centre of Excellence founder John Kamara said that in order for Africa, and especially Kenya, to fully participate in the AI space, data transformation is key to digital transformation. “Kenya is going through digital transformation and so is every African country but it is not intelligent at all,” he said. “We are not thinking about the data. We take what we have on paper and transform it through automation but we are not thinking about the connected nature of the data.” “We need to ask ourselves; what do we want to do with the data in the next five to ten years and how does it connect? How does agriculture connect to healthcare and how does healthcare relate to climate change?” Kamara […]

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