What South Africa Is — and Isn’t — Doing, and Whether It Can Close the Race Gap eyesonsouthafrica Amsterdam, Septermber 7, 2026 – Saudi Arabia and the UAE moved fast and moved from the top down: a state-mandated AI curriculum for six million schoolchildren, a national enrollment drive putting a premium AI subscription into university…
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South Africa’s Bold Bid for 2030 — and the Data Revolution Behind Bafana Bafana eyesonsouthafrica Amsterdam, September 5, 2026 – Sixteen years after hosting the World Cup on home soil, South Africa finally returned to football’s biggest stage in 2026 — and did something Bafana Bafana had never managed before: they reached the knockout rounds.…
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Where Opportunity, Capital and Knowledge Connect Business • Investment • Tourism • Intelligence South Africa is far more than one of the world’s great tourism destinations. It is one of Africa’s most sophisticated and diversified economies, a gateway to the wider Southern African region, and a country where major challenges exist alongside remarkable opportunities for…
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Inside Saudi Arabia’s Race to Build a Renewable Power System eyesonsaudi-arabia Amsterdam, August 23, 2026 – There is something almost poetic about the idea of the world’s largest oil exporter becoming a renewable energy powerhouse. Saudi Arabia has more sunlight hitting its soil than almost any country on Earth, and for decades that sunlight did…
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A BBC correspondent who spent decades reporting from Brazil and across Latin America is trading fieldwork for a hammock — but not, it turns out, for a fully unmanned newsroom. Here’s why his instincts are the most valuable asset the site has, and why “AI-driven” can mean something much better than “AI-alone.” eyesoneurope There’s something…
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Automation, Liability, and the Allure of Unfiltered AI Journalism eyesoneurope The prospect of establishing an entirely automated online news platform—where artificial intelligence scans raw data, writes polished articles, formats pages, and publishes around the clock without human intervention—is no longer science fiction. Modern Large Language Models (LLMs) can synthesize complex reports and generate readable prose…
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Can Local AI Actually Shrink AI’s Footprint? eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 21, 2026 – Somewhere in Iowa, Virginia, or the Arizona desert, a warehouse the size of several football fields is drawing enough electricity to power a small city, and enough water to keep its servers from melting under the load of your last chatbot query.…
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What a Brazilian Plagiarism Scandal Teaches Us About AI and Academic Integrity eyesoneurope In mid-2023, a story out of Brazil went viral for an unexpected reason. It wasn’t about a student caught cheating with ChatGPT. It was the opposite: a professor had used ChatGPT itself to decide that a student’s final paper was AI-generated —…
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How AI Can Make Students More Productive — and More Creative Reflections inspired by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel, founding president of the German University of Digital Science eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 17, 2026 – There is a particular kind of institution that only becomes possible once you stop assuming a lecture hall is required. The German…
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How Estonia’s AI Experiment Is Reshaping European Education eyesoneurope Amsterdam, July 15, 2026 – Thirty years ago, a small Baltic nation of 1.36 million people made a bet that computers and the internet belonged in every school, long before most of Europe took the idea seriously. That bet, known as Tiger Leap, turned Estonia into…
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