Can digital technology transform West Africa?
A panel of experts discuss how digital technology and AI are transforming West Africa.
CrowdScience heads to Freetown, Sierra Leone for a panel debate in front of a live 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 regional science experts to explore how robots, drones and big data are transforming sectors such as agriculture, health and governance. Could clever machines help eradicate invasive species? Will block chain IDs eventually replace physical documents? And while this technology is 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
(Photo: The panel and Audience at Crowd Science live event in Sierra Leone. Credit: BBC)
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- Fri 31 Jan 202020:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia, Online, Americas and the Caribbean, Europe and the Middle East & UK DAB/Freeview only
- Fri 31 Jan 202021:32GMTBBC World Service News Internet & East Asia only
- Sun 2 Feb 202000:32GMTBBC World Service
- Mon 3 Feb 202005:32GMTBBC World Service Online, UK DAB/Freeview, News Internet & Europe and the Middle East only
- Mon 3 Feb 202006:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia, Americas and the Caribbean & South Asia only
- Mon 3 Feb 202007:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa & East Asia only
- Mon 3 Feb 202011:32GMTBBC World Service West and Central Africa
- Mon 3 Feb 202014:32GMTBBC World Service Australasia
- Mon 3 Feb 202018:32GMTBBC World Service East and Southern Africa, South Asia & West and Central Africa only
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