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For the last few years, I’ve worked in different corners of what can be generally be dubbed as the content moderation industry. First as a contractor, then as an employee for well-known social media platforms, where day-to-day work is intimately linked to crucial social outcomes in different parts of the world. The decisions made in that industry can decide what counts as a real identity, the level of nudity deemed socially acceptable, and even what war images will make it to society’s co...
The Mozilla Festival (MozFest) 2018 wrapped up over the last weekend in October with the MozFest Weekend, showcasing world-changing ideas and technology through workshops, talks, art, games, debates and interactive sessions. Hundreds of activists and makers were brought together with the aim of building a stronger community. As a contributor to Mozilla’s open source project Common Voice and a participant in Mozilla’s meetups in Berlin, I was particularly excited to experience the festival...
In the last two decades, Kenya mobile communications and internet connectivity have rapidly increased. With these developments, the country has also developed a data economy. The data economy is the wealth and resources created from collection and processing of data. It is the cornerstone of the fourth industrial revolution which uses digital technologies to carry out processes, be they physica...
What is big data? Given its name, does one define it simply in terms of size or quantity? If that’s the case, much of the excitement that surrounds it is overblown. History, after all, is teeming with evidence of humans dealing with generous amounts of data. That also means the concept is a dated one, merely resuscitated from relative obscurity. No. Big data goes beyond that—though volume r...
