AI & Africa | Dialogues on Tech and Society

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| Strive Masiyiwa and James Manyika

What we can learn from Africa’s mobile revolution, AI’s potential for positive impact on economic opportunity in Africa, and society’s collective responsibility to ensure everyone can benefit. A business leader and philanthropist working at the intersection of technology and transformational change, Strive Masiyiwa is the founder and executive chairman of Econet, and one of the early pioneers of the mobile telecoms industry in Africa. Working for decades to connect people and businesses across the content, he continues to lead initiatives to promote entrepreneurship, education, and social and economic development across Africa. In this episode, he sits down with James Manyika, Google’s SVP of Research, Technology & Society.

00:00 - Africa’s mobile revolution
04:36 - The possibilities of AI for Africa
08:10 - Risks and challenges of AI
11:06 - AI and economic opportunity for Africa
15:22 - Investment in infrastructure
17:36 - Open innovation
20:08 - Collective responsibility
20:38 - AI and education
22:44 - How Africa is benefiting from AI today

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