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of data collected by businesses across Africa skyrockets, turning all this information into actionable insights becomes increasingly critical. Big data has the power to underpin new waves of growth and innovation and bring Africa into the data economy.

One attendee highlighted that entities in the education space need to accept that students might not need, or even have reasonable use for, a PhD in the future but instead, might need skills to help them advance in areas like data, AI and ML. All agreed that there is a clear need for organisations to share this outlook for the future benefit of our country and continent, and the conversation turned to how data can help Africa achieve this.Some said Africa is too quick to apply data models and analyses designed for the Western world that don’t translate well to this continent, which could see some of the most valuable areas of growth, that need our focus, being disregarded.

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