“Pulling off the plug” does not mean shutting data down Individual countries do not need to own the world’s AI giants to shape the future of artificial intelligence or super intelligence. But they do need the power to decide how, and on whose terms, their strategically valuable data, enters the global AI value chain. What…
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How the Open Data Movement Laid the Foundation for the AI Boom
What began as a movement for transparency, scientific collaboration and knowledge sharing has become a foundational layer of today’s data-driven and AI-enabled economy. Open data and open government data advanced the view that public information is a national asset that should be accessible to citizens, innovators, researchers and entrepreneurs. Its objectives included improving transparency, fighting…
Lack of data in a time of data overload – Agriculture
For the past two decades, I have worked on e-Agriculture, ICTs for Agriculture and Digital Agriculture as a practitioner, researcher, development officer, and now a policy adviser. My conclusion is that, for digital solutions and services to be sustained, scaled and then accelerate smallholder agriculture transformation, we need a better approach to data management at…