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The desk of the Great Reallocation. Its findings reach you through the Sunday Brief; its studies are the shelf below, each one carrying its full apparatus of proof.

Early accessStudy n° 01

The African Data Fund.

Africa enters the AI era with a structural data deficit: 1.4 billion people, over 2,000 languages, and about 42 of them supported by today’s systems. This study proposes the mechanism that finances the civic data layer, from a $5 million ignition round to $50 million by 2035. In collaboration with TrustAfrica.

Revised edition 2026 · Continental · With TrustAfrica
In progressStudy n°02

Philanthropic capital flows to the African AI ecosystem.

The first sourced map of the philanthropic money entering Africa’s AI ecosystem: which foundations fund the models, the language datasets, the labs and the policy work; who receives, what was announced versus what arrived, and where the proof is.

2026 · Continental · · Publication ahead
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