Africa launched two competing cross-border data exchange systems within five days of each other. Nobody noticed.

AfCFTA and Smart Africa are building competing cross-border data exchange systems in a direct contradiction to the Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa.

Partner or predator?

An in-depth audit of Google's footprint in Africa and its consequences for digital sovereignty.

The view from the ground floor of African digital transformation

Data collected for all 54 African countries on the digital status of rural facilities - primary healthcare clinics, primary schools, registry offices and police stations - reveal that paper remains the overriding means of maintaining records.

"Our cloud, our chips, our algorithms" — a new kind of sovereignty emerges from Washington

At the India AI Impact Summit in February the White House Director of Tech Policy announced that its new state-funded AI Export Program will seek to impose US technology stacks on those poorer countries deemed to be of strategic interest to the USA.

Supporting health workers with AI? No one can disagree with that. Can we?

In January Bill Gates published a blog announcing a joint investment with OpenAI to deploy AI in primary healthcare clinics. This article critiques his misuse of evidence.