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From AI governance to human leadership: Why Africa’s greatest AI investment is its people
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From AI governance to human leadership: Why Africa’s greatest AI investment is its people

...Governance creates direction. Infrastructure creates capability. But people create transformation

Paulette Watson MBE
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This week, in Geneva, the United Nations is convening the first Global Dialogue on AI Governance, bringing all 193 Member States together for the first time to discuss how artificial intelligence should be governed, for whose benefit, and on what terms.

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