Shaping Africa’s digital destiny with Ambassador Philip Thigo
In this episode of Voices of Africa, we speak to Ambassador Philip Thigo about Africa’s pivotal role in the global digital revolution. Amb. Thigo underlines how critical it is for African nations to ‘reimagine sovereignty’ when it comes to Africa’s digital future, moving beyond national silos towards continental collaboration in AI and data governance. His vision? Strong pan-African collaboration and real-world AI solutions that tangibly improve lives across the continent.
With the notion of interdependence, we need to redefine, reimagine what sovereignty is in the era of emerging technologies. African sovereignty must involve shared resources like compute, talent, and data within a continental framework, rather than purely national silos.
In this episode:
00:00 Welcome to Voices of Africa
01:39 The journey to technology diplomacy
09:44 The need for an African playbook
14:04 Reimagining sovereignty in technology
18:04 Investing in infrastructure and talent
23:19 Governance in the era of emerging technologies
25:25 Integrating lifelong learning in education
32:46 The financing challenge
35:27 The cost of democracy in innovation
37:41 Reimagining investment opportunities
39:10 Vision for the future
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