A lot has been written about how the deployment of new technologies could help African countries solve, or even leapfrog, some of the many developmental problems they face on a daily basis. But technological advances also do bring their own challenges.
Primary among those concerns is that everything from digital connectivity to artificial intelligence to the deployment of robots do not hold much promise in overcoming the biggest obstacle facing most countries: how to create meaningful, large-scale employment for their fast-growing youthful populations.
This is in part why The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has kicked off an initiative to research […]
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