Who captures the value?
AI markets, investment, compute economics and the concentration of infrastructure and returns.
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Research
Study the systems
beneath the story.
Research on the economics, labor, infrastructure and governance of artificial intelligence—seen from Africa and the Global South.
Full record on ResearchGate04
Research agenda
Four connected questions.
Who supplies the labor?
Data work, platform power, global supply chains and the conditions behind automated systems.
Who writes the rules?
Continental strategies, institutional capacity, governance frameworks and digital sovereignty.
Who gets to participate?
Education, vocational systems, access to opportunity and technology adoption in emerging markets.
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Selected publications
Current work.
A selection from the public research record. Each title opens the source publication.
012026 / Cloud economics
Democratizing Multi-Cloud Cost Optimization for Small and Medium Businesses
022026 / AI & laborFrom Extraction to Ownership: Platform Cooperatives as Infrastructure for Worker Sovereignty in African AI Labor Markets
032025 / AI governanceFrom Aspiration to Implementation: The African Union AI Continental Strategy and the Development-Governance Paradox
042025 / AI supply chainsKenya’s Data Workers: The $2/Hour Labor Force Training Western AI
Method
Evidence, context
and political economy.
Technology does not arrive in a vacuum.
The research combines market analysis, policy reading, institutional comparison and the lived realities behind aggregate numbers. It asks not only what a technology can do, but how its benefits, risks and bargaining power are distributed.
Collaboration is welcome with academic institutions, policy organizations, investors and technology companies committed to rigorous, evidence-led work.
Available for selected engagements