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Africa Data Centres is heading to Capacity Europe 2024! Let’s connect and discuss the future of digital infrastructure in Africa.  . #DigitalTransformation #CapacityEurope2024 #AfricaDataCentres

Moshin Ali, Assistant Auditor General, Fiji, speaks about how Pacific SAIs may see IT infrastructure adoption and using technology as a large investment and change, but notes the importance of taking small steps to get there and the gained efficiencies of digitalization. His SAI notes that they are trying to move away from reliance on a whole of government data center, but the cost of hosting their own data center is great, and may be a similar challenge faced by other SAIs in the Pacific. #PASAICongress2024 #pacificauditorsworkingtogether

Unpacking the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill Join us as we delve into the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill! Discover how this legislation aims to foster economic growth, enhance public services, and empower groundbreaking scientific research in the UK. Don't miss the insights on digital verification and smart data schemes in this enlightening discussion! #DigitalInformation #SmartDataBill #TechUtopia #EconomicGrowth #PublicServices #ScientificResearch #DigitalVerification #Legislation #PolicyDiscussion #Innovation #AC24

Our webinar on Data Interoperability is starting now! Join us for a powerful session to learn how this DPI can be built and deployed in your own country!

2024 is a big year for the African data centres market. There’s huge growth on the horizon with new hubs popping up and adding to the geographical footprint. To find out more, read our blog written by our Conference Producer Amy Hopkinson ➡ https://lnkd.in/dyQaQkKe #datacentres #PADC24 #datacentresafrica #industryupdate #marketupdate #conference #exhibition #industryexperts

🎙 Thank you to everyone who joined our webinar, co-hosted by CISPE (Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe) and The European Data Centre Association - EUDCA, sponsored by #EUSEW. 📽 Missed out to join us live? The recording is now available: https://lnkd.in/epK2Wq7Q The consensus after a fascinating discussion: While progress has been made in using data centres as an alternative source of heat, achieving a #NetZero future requires removing policy and bureaucratic hurdles, creating a market, and fostering collaboration among different stakeholders. Marco Bolchi opened the discussion by explaining how uncertainties within the regulatory framework hamper the synergies between data centres and #energy consumers. Regulators, he said, can “establish policies and guidelines to actually promote data heat use and then create a market.” Dr. Béla Waldhauser agreed, explaining how the lack of a regulatory framework has limited private sector investment. “It's not only about sustainability, it's also about being commercially attractive.” However, the path to using heat from data centres for our communities requires stakeholder collaboration, said Felix Kriedemann. He cited the example of an energy community, a democratic legal entity that provides renewable energy solutions. “What this means is essentially that citizens come together, they create a legal entity, most of the time as a cooperative, so that they can become active participants in the energy market and reap these benefits.” But, as Nikolaos Kontinakis pointed out, this comes back to the need for a market. One of the reasons why heat from data centres hasn’t been widely used in his view, is because the market for it hasn’t been created yet. Nonetheless, if the heat from data centres can be used widely, it can contribute to the continent becoming carbon-free, according to Pauline Lucas: “In the near future, data centres will be our sources to be carbon neutral.” 👏 Thanks to all speakers for their insights and to Emma Fryer for moderating a great discussion.   For an in-depth look at the topics discussed, access the presentation slides here: https://lnkd.in/edQaggdt #Heatreuse #Europe #Datacentres #Webinar

ICYMI: Here are some of our highlights from the #NADPAConference24 last week. Our message was clear: Africa's digital destiny is in our hands. Let's craft a future where digital transformation and data governance go hand in hand Office of the Data Protection Commissioner

Digital commons (here: https://lnkd.in/d6RN3M-A) and public value-centred infrastructures (here: https://lnkd.in/ds8ZjxSs) are finally getting momentum as a robust alternative to current market- and/or state-driven (mainstream) approaches to the digital transformation. What we still miss is robust empirical evidence and ongoing monitoring of these approaches and related initiatives to highlight barriers and enablers to such a paradigmatic shift in digital governance. In this respect, it is definitely worth resharing an open-access article centred around the idea of the Data Republic as a systemically fair ecosystem (at the convergence of open data and data commons), which I wrote last year together with Bastiaan van Loenen and published in the journal Data & Policy (Data for Policy CIC): "A Fourth Way to the Digital Transformation: The Data Republic as a Fair Data Ecosystem" Here: https://lnkd.in/eHaZKQpT Feel free to circulate & comment! #datacommons #opendata #datarepublic #digitalecosystems #digitalgovernance

Commemorating #WorldTBDay2024 under the theme "Yes! We can end TB" TB remains a major threat, especially in Uganda (ranked 30th globally). We are leveraging computer visualisation tools to automate diagnosis in TB, reducing workload & speeding up accurate detection for resource-limited areas. #AIforGlobalGoals