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Drowning in data, dying from bad decisions -BigData Ghana CEO charges Africa to act
In 2021, the work behind the system won BigData Ghana the Digital Earth Africa Innovation Challenge, making it the first Ghanaian company to take the continent-wide competition.
The first is the Ghana Agricultural Information and Monitoring System, which uses satellite imagery and vegetation data to make farming activity visible to banks and investors who have historically declined to lend because they could not verify what was in the ground or where.
Headquartered in Accra, the company serves government institutions, banks, investors, private sector businesses, agricultural enterprises, logistics operators, and infrastructure developers across Ghana and the wider African continent.
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