Tech & Innovation
The race to build facial recognition tech for Africa is being led by this award-winning engineerFacial recognition technology is not widely employed in Africa, partly because the technology available up till now has not been adept at identifying and differentiating the faces of Black people. US government tests of the best Western-developed facial recognition systems have shown them to misidentify Black people at rates up to five to 10 times higher than they do white people.
Updated July 21, 20224 min read