Big Data World – everywhere your turn

Data now sits behind almost all the everyday decisions we make – from the maps on your phone and the payments you transfer, to how clinics schedule care and how farmers track drought. And increasingly, even more data is needed every day to power the AI revolution. But the “big” in Big Data isn’t just about size; it’s about turning fast, messy streams of information into insight that helps people. Our people. In the Western Cape, the Provincial Health Data Centre links person level health records to improve service delivery – a concrete, local example of data made useful for public good. The Africa Data Hub shows another side: ready-to- publish visuals and training that help newsrooms make sense of complex health and social datasets for their audiences. And at a continental scale, Digital Earth Africa transforms satellite pixels into “decision-ready” products to manage water, crops and coastlines – Big Data you can literally see from space!