The desk of the Great Reallocation. Its findings reach you through the Sunday Brief; its studies are the shelf below, each one carrying its full apparatus of proof.
Africa enters the AI era with a structural data deficit: 1.4 billion people, over 2,000 languages, and about 42 of them supported by today’s systems. This study proposes the mechanism that finances the civic data layer, from a $5 million ignition round to $50 million by 2035. In collaboration with TrustAfrica.
Data sovereignty, taken back from the state and returned to the community: a critical reading of the African Union’s approach through Ubuntu’s relational ethics, and the case for philanthropy to fund community data trusts, cooperatives and commons. In collaboration with CAPSI (Wits Business School) and the Mastercard Foundation.
The first sourced map of the philanthropic money entering Africa’s AI ecosystem: which foundations fund the models, the language datasets, the labs and the policy work; who receives, what was announced versus what arrived, and where the proof is. In collaboration with CAPSI (Wits Business School).
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