A dearth of African-language content is delaying the uptake of artificial intelligence on the continent, compounding a lack of access to the technology, according to mobile industry body GSMA.
The biggest challenge in growing the sector has been the usage gap — about 790 million people on the continent live in areas with internet coverage but don’t have the smartphones to get online, according to
WATCH: Rwanda’s ICT and Innovation Minister, Paula Ingabire, spoke to Bloomberg’s Ondiro Oganga on the sidelines of the Mobile World Congress in Kigali about tech investments and the country’s AI ambitions. Source: Bloomberg
“There are 2,000 languages in Africa and those languages are not represented in the AI models,” he said on the sidelines of the ...