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The UN Global Digital Compact aims to bring together governments and industry to ensure that technology, like AI, works for all humanity.
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INTERVIEW: AI expert warns of 'digital colonization' in Africa

Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new “colonization” of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors.