Kofi Yeboah
@kofiemeritus
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Interests: Tech and Geopolitics | Religion in Africa. Former: Non-residential Scholar at @Leverhulmecfi. RTs ≠ endorsement
Joined June 2011
For many Facebook users in Africa, once the platform is "down", the assumption is that the entire internet is down. Majority of folks think Facebook is the internet. That's the problem when Facebook tries to "connect" the unconnected in developing countries.
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“It isn’t just catching up on long-term spending, which is already close to impossible. It is competing with a system that fuses industrial policy, advanced supply chains and robust engineering and Stem pipelines into one machine."
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"The Deloitte report contained false citations, pulled from made-up academic papers to draw conclusions for cost-effectiveness analyses, and cited real researchers on papers they hadn’t worked on, the Independent found." https://t.co/8zkHFsY2Sa
fortune.com
In a healthcare report aimed to address a nurse and doctor shortage, Deloitte cited several fake studies with real researchers’ names attached.
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@kofiemeritus Confidence and arrogance are not the same thing. So you can be humble and confident. Just keep in mind you don’t know much and you’re good to go
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Syndicates [from European countries] export and profit from disinformation on key social policies in Africa. Eg. A right-wing political org based in Spain exported disinformation to Kenya to steer Twitter conversations in favour of the 2020 Reproductive Healthcare Bill.
The average monthly salary in Nigeria, Kenya, and Bangladesh is roughly $470, $393, and $220. Because Twitter no longer meaningfully penalizes accounts that spread lies, incite conflict, or promote hate, and has now monetized engagement, it's created a system where these bad
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Between 1994 and 1999, only 1% of all private capital flows coming through the Ghana Investment Promotion Centre (US$1.5 billion) went to Northern Ghana, whereas the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area alone attracted 79%. (Songsore, 2011a, 2006).
When the colonial state needed to expand its extractive capitalist economy in Ghana [then Gold Cost], it created policies that undermined the developmental interests of the North.
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Nice thread backed with historic data. Even without this good info, people need to know that the Northern part of Ghana is not a federal state, and the relative rapid development of the capital, the middle belt and Takoradi are not due to ethnicity, but some very obvious factors
.@readJerome, I think some young Ghanaians assume that national resources are shared equitably across the region. So, the Northern belt is to blame for their own socio-economic woes, without regard for colonial and historical social policy factors. [Thread]
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You are not doing them any favour if for nothing at all you are profiting off the lived experiences of people in those regions. All they said is represent them the right way how hard is it to get this simple fact.
@kwakueffa i have not seen recurring videos of any one of them promoting the 5 regions, but when someone decides, they want to control you on what you should post. if you want to promote, you’re a microphone and camera away to tell a story.
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"Until the colony and Ashanti have been thoroughly opened up and developed, northern territories must be content to wait for their turn, and any extensive program designed to render the area more accessible must be suffered to stand over for a long time to come" - J.J. Thornbourn
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The policies included forced labour migration, obstructing educational advancement, neglecting the development of infrastructure and that of agricultural resources of the area [Bening 1975].
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When the colonial state needed to expand its extractive capitalist economy in Ghana [then Gold Cost], it created policies that undermined the developmental interests of the North.
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.@readJerome, I think some young Ghanaians assume that national resources are shared equitably across the region. So, the Northern belt is to blame for their own socio-economic woes, without regard for colonial and historical social policy factors. [Thread]
@Hajjyass70 You've exposed yourself kwasia man. You region is the least developed, full of illiteracy, unemployment, etc. Now you want to distance yourself from Bawku, aboafunu. When you go about burning everything in Tamale and Yendi, you thought people weren't watching. Eva heard Kayayoo?
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Knowing your country's [Ghana] history is very important. It tells you a clear story of why there is a huge socio-economic regional divide between the North and South, fuelled heavily by the British colonizers. When you know this, you avoid making ignorant statements like this 👇🏿
we tell stories as it is, you can watch our videos on youtube, we tell stories as it is. since we got here we have collaborated with locals to tell the story, you’re still offended over our thumbnail. some of you speak like the region is for you personally. you don’t expect us
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This right here illustrates a point I make in my book about the collapsing of the diversity of Northern ethnicities into a monolith. This erasure of individual Northern languages and cultures while essentializing the North. It's like when colonizers treat Africa as a monolith.
Voltarians vs. Northerners: Whose Twi is funnier?
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As part of this Council, I'll lend my expertise to define and guide PAI’s work. By sharing our unique perspectives, we can empower decision-makers to shape an equitable AI future that benefits all. #AIEthics #TechForGood
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I’m thrilled to announce I’ve joined the newly formed SAIGE Council from @PartnershipAI, a multi-stakeholder community addressing the most important and difficult questions concerning the future of AI.
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“European values are still assumed as shorthand for global or universal values by its actors and institutions[…] The ‘Brussels Effect’ isn’t the sole thrust in shaping the global technological order! Increasingly, there is talk and visible influence of a ‘Beijing Effect’ and a
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Congratulations, @BBSimons 👏🏿👏🏿
Ghana’s Bright Simons to co-chair new World Economic Forum council on global development reform https://t.co/nquxlbawL4
#WorldEconomicForum #GlobalDevelopment #InternationalCooperation
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From the @thecontinent_ "...the children appeared to be victims of a systematic recruitment operation that manipulated them into posting political slogans, insults directed at the Egyptian President, calls to open Gaza’s Rafah crossing..."
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📣My analytical op-ed in @ForeignPolicy on AI-powered information warfare. Is the window for combating AI-driven propaganda is closing? Local, open-weight models let State, non-state and micro-operators run industrial-scale influence ops with no central points.
📣AI propaganda factories🏭 are now operational. My study shows how small, open-weight models can run as fully automatic generators in influence campaigns. mechanising personas, engagement, cadence. Possible for State, non-state, and micro-actors, including and bedroom ones.
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