CrowdScience: Can Digital Technology Transform West Africa?

CrowdScience heads to Freetown, Sierra Leone, for a panel discussion recorded in front of an audience to answer listener questions about how artificial intelligence is helping tackle some of the world’s most pressing issues.

Anand Jagatia is joined by three regional science experts to explore how robots and big data are transforming sectors such as agriculture and governance.

Could clever machines help eradicate invasive species? How are drones being used to tackle climate change? Will block chain IDs eventually replace physical documents?

With this technology heralded as a force for change, we’ll ask whether fears of an AI takeover are unfounded.

• Presented by Anand Jagatia and produced by Marijke Peters and Mel Brown for BBC World Service

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