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Charlette Desirée N'Guessan is an Ivorian software engineer, tech entrepreneur and writer. She was the first woman to win the Africa Prize For Engineering Innovation for the image recognition system, BACE API.

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Also known as: Charlette N’Guessan

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It's time for us as young African engineers to start working on solutions to solve our local challenges.

Discussions about AI advancements in Africa often highlight the misconceptions held by the rest of the world. First, Africa has always been positioned as merely a passive consumer of technologies developed elsewhere: They build, ship here, and we're expected to use them.

...it is entirely false to assume that innovation cannot thrive on the continent. The narrative must shift from waiting for external solutions to actively building and scaling local innovations.

Decision-makers who shape global AI strategies rarely engage with the realities on the ground. It is not just being quoted as an African, If you haven’t been ground-building AI-driven models in Africa, you can’t be loud and make decisions on our behalf.

...many AI-driven solutions introduced in Africa fail to address local needs, are riddled with biases, and inadvertently create a form of foreign technological dominance in African markets.

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