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Since the first conference on open data in Francophone Africa was held in 2017, the data community has greatly evolved and diversified thanks to the various interventions and innovations carried out by its wide network of experts and partner institutions.

Despite the positive potential and relative progress of open data for development, there are still gaps in creating and sharing high quality, timely, relevant, and accessible data in developing countries.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to alter our world and to advance human development, with dramatic implications across every sector of society.

Despite promising open data initiatives, notably in Côte d’Ivoire and Burkina Faso, African Francophone countries are severely lagging behind in terms of access and use of public data.