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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

It is part of the AfDB’s ‘ Africa Information Highway ’ initiative, which enabled the introduction of live data links between the AfDB, National Statistical Offices, Central Banks and relevant ministries in all 54 countries. Is Open Data Just A Flash in the Pan Movement?

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How foreign workers helped spur Spain’s rapid economic growth

Fast Company Tech

Inside a cavernous production plant in Spain, people from 62 nationalities work side by side to keep a food company humming as millions of legs of ham travel on hooks along conveyor belts. Practically all of Spains population growth since the COVID-19 pandemic is due to immigration, with 1.1 Countless die in the attempt.

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Platforms successfully stopped a lame COVID conspiracy video from going viral

The Verge

One group is focused on Google’s search practices, and some of its members have voiced the belief that there are vulnerabilities in a case built around those issues, people familiar with the matter said. Details about the Justice Department’s legal theories couldn’t be learned. Makena Kelly / The Verge ).

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Facebook’s big QAnon crackdown might have come too late

The Verge

Yesterday I included a link to a story in Time about a request from the Gambian government to help investigate the genocide in Myanmar , where the United Nations has said Facebook contributed to the incitement of violence. Critics say the companies have grown in part because of a range of anticompetitive practices.

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