Beatrice Bonami

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Dr. Beatrice Bonami is a researcher at the University of Edinburgh, known for her work on data policies in Africa. Alongside her colleague Dr. Seydina Moussa Ndiaye, she has explored the concept of 'Southern Data Poverty,' highlighting how African nations face continuous digital extraction of their data by global technology firms. Her research emphasizes the need for local access to high-quality training datasets to develop sovereign artificial intelligence and addresses the epistemic damage caused by foreign tech monopolies on African societies.