From AI ambition to AI adoption: Why Africa's leaders must close the execution gap
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From AI ambition to AI adoption: Why Africa's leaders must close the execution gap

…buying AI is easy. Transforming an organisation is harder. Africa's next AI challenge is turning technology into productivity, skills, trust and sustainable economic value.

Paulette Watson, MBE
Published August 11, 20265 min read

Last Friday, during my appearance on JoyFM TV, I reflected on a question that is becoming increasingly urgent for African leaders: we have spent considerable time discussing what artificial intelligence can do, but are our organisations actually ready to use it well? This matters because the global AI conversation is changing. The issue is no longer simply adoption. It is value.

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