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Countering political lies in Africa
What if political lies about/in Africa ultimately helped build endogenous development there?By: Expert Pape D. Thiam
If we just had to keep constant watch, to identify active or passive false communications that manipulate African populations, we would need centers for listening, counter-espionage and decoding messages which are a hundred times more important than those currently devoted to the fight against terrorism in the world.
However, the danger that most threatens peace and stability in the world comes from disinformation and lies from politicians and bureaucrats who, in Africa, serve economic, financial and political interest groups.
And every supply creates its own demand, political oppositions develop there with the same lies and methods of manipulation.
The weapon of mass deterrence of lies is information which gives populations direct knowledge allowing them not to be manipulated.
The philosophy behind this instrument allowed the advent of political alternations in Africa, with the emergence of a private press in national languages which monitored and protected elections.
This approach could be used to track down and counter the false communication of politicians who take advantage of the ignorance of populations to sell them illusions by expressing themselves in national languages.
We can thus put in place a system which is fueled by economic/political news and the declarations it triggers from politicians who exploit it to manipulate populations.
This real-time interactive monitoring structure, with powerful analysis software associated with fast search engines, would make it possible to assess the feasibility of the promises that a politician makes to populations and to make this information available in the same language of communication of this same politician.
This monitoring system would in fact be fueled by political and economic positions, declarations, analyzes and promises from politicians and other stakeholders.
With such a digital analysis and communication infrastructure, African populations would be educated in real time on their development opportunities through the inclusive transformation of the resources of their own lands, as well as on the constraints and risks associated with them, which could help them build explicit development demands.
Correlatively, the articulated expression of the development demands of African populations would make it possible to generate adapted development offers and build a market of economic opportunities open to the entire world.
Artificial intelligence could thus be used to unleash global growth by building a development market in Africa with opportunities for all countries.
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