watching us from home we're coming to you from the most visited city in africa cape town my name is edith cumani now according to u.n. figures by the year 2050 every 2 out of 4 people will be african now that's quite staggering when you think about it does that then mean that if the population is going to quadruple here that our data will also quadruple and what does that mean for the future of data on the continent this morning we're asking the question is data africa's new oil and i'm going to be helped to answer that by my student panel and i'm going to be introducing them now i'm joined by sylvia my carry on my extreme right she's the head of geospatial technologies on the co-founder of have to analysts expats in kenya but also joined by mr alex knew who he. is a managing partner and chairman at 80 kearney if you've been to the world economic forum a few times you might have seen his face. on my right my immediate right is mr moore at sun ms he is the managing director and the head for the center for the 4th industrial revolution right here at the world economic forum host and also doubling