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The Quiet Competence of Being “Late” to the AI Party (opens the original)
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In Mankosi, a rural community in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, residents built something commercial telecom companies had largely failed to provide. They built their own network. Operators had little incentive to serve villages where returns were uncertain, so residents worked with researchers from the University of the Western Cape to build solar-powered wireless infrastructure and establish a community-owned internet service provider. A licensing exemption from South Africa’s communications reg
Jesusegun Adewunmi on the Data Behind African AI (opens the original)
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Welcome to Issue #80 of TAIS, where every Friday we spotlight visionary changemakers reshaping Africa’s tech, data, and AI landscape, one breakthrough at a time.ShareToday we spotlight Jesusegun Adewunmi, a Nigerian machine learning engineer and student-community builder based in Lagos. Across the different things he works on, there is a consistent inte
The Second Checkpoint (opens the original)
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I wasn’t born a good speaker. Making my points hold together out loud is something I learned over time, and for years the only way I could do it was to write first. I would write down what I wanted to say, turn it over in every direction, argue with myself on the page, and only then study what I’d written and speak from it. Writing is where my thinking happens.English came late to me. I didn’t grow up in an English environment, and I was nineteen when I learned it in South Africa. So the praise
Khalifa M Niamadio on Who Owns the Value of African Language AI (opens the original)
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Welcome to Issue #79 of TAIS, where every Friday we spotlight visionary changemakers reshaping Africa’s tech, data, and AI landscape, one breakthrough at a time.ShareToday we spotlight Khalifa M Niamadio, a Senegalese founder now based in Accra, Ghana, whose path through software engineering, product management and AI advocacy has led him to a problem that
“Will AI end US all?”: Another Day in Paradise (opens the original)
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The trending AI doom narrative is a luxury frame. You can only be afraid of AI ending humanity if you’re already inside AI’s benefits. For a huge share of the continent still on the wrong side of the inclusion gap, the operative question is “will we ever be legible to AI at all?” Fear of superintelligence and fear of irrelevance are different anxieties, and they map onto different positions of power.So the “us” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. The rhetorical move of “end us all” manufact
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