Africa's data is worth $400bn. We're giving it away

Across many sectors, SMS still underpins some of the most successful, high-impact use cases.

A growing invisible workforce of machine identities such as API keys, bots, cloud workloads, and AI agents - now operate within organisations largely unprotected.

According to Yewande Ayowole-Oso from Schneider Electric, AI is enhancing productivity by eliminating common bottlenecks and removing tedious tasks, not replacing human roles.

The Digicloud Africa partner has deployed Google Gemini Enterprise at two companies in the financial services sector.

Quest enables AI-assisted modelling and automated metadata workflows that accelerate data product delivery.

AI-driven data analysis empowers retail operations by uncovering actionable patterns and highlighting opportunities for operational improvement, says Arch Retail Solutions.

With the major AI models being developed in far off lands, how will they meet the needs of Africans, especially when some African languages have very little digital data to train from?

The Synthesis data and analytics practice uses Google Cloud to build enterprise-grade data platforms that break down data silos and address security concerns, says Louis-Philip Shahim, Google Cloud practice lead at Synthesis.

First Distribution says its goal is simple: to make its clients the trusted experts that their customers rely on.

The company says success in 2026 will require addressing AI workloads as fully integrated components of the broader enterprise stack.

AI has the potential to wipe out employment opportunities for many Africans, so it’s vital to ensure the continent leverages the AI opportunity for its own needs, says AI entrepreneur.

The offering is a new tier of subscription plan designed to give more people access to ChatGPT's increased capabilities at a reasonable cost.