Digital Dominance and Neo-Imperialism
The BUILD Conference in Abuja discussed building shared African compute and AI infrastructure to counter digital imperialism, where US companies control most global cloud capacity while Africa controls under 1%. African news organizations face distribution capture, data colonialism via unlicensed scraping of journalism for AI training, and Stealth AI creating synthetic fakes that undermine independent press and democracy.
Pidgin: BUILD Conference wey dem hold for Abuja talk about how Africa go build and share dem own compute and AI infrastructure to break digital imperialism chain, as US companies control over 65% of global cloud while Africa wey get 18% of world people control less than 1%. African news houses dey face distribution capture, data colonialism where dem dey scrape journalism without permission to train AI for California, plus Stealth AI wey dey create fake synthetic news wey dey destroy independent press and democracy.
How this affects you: African news organizations and independent press are affected by losing ad revenue, having content scraped without compensation, and facing synthetic fakes that undermine credibility and democratic pillars.
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