Africa’s technology and business leaders have in their hands an unprecedented opportunity to surpass their global counterparts. If we can harness the vast and growing sources of information known as “Big Data”, members of the C-suite – particularly Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) and Chief Information Officers (CIOs), who increasingly share the responsibility for growth and …
The inherent limitations of this approach spurred the author of the article, Patrick Meier, and his team to enhance Ushahidi with a set of Twitter classifiers — algorithms that could automatically identify Tweets that were relevant and informative to the crisis at hand. For example, classifiers automatically categorize eyewitness reports, infrastructure-damage assessments, casualties, humanitarian needs, …
Three weeks ago, on 5 March 2013, I had the pleasure to participate in a session discussing about the importance of an open and multi-stakeholder Internet framework for freedom of expression and economic growth in Africa. The session was organized by the United States Mission to the United Nations in Geneva, in partnership with the …