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That’s a useful distinction. I’d want to follow those young people beyond the training: are they finding work, building useful tools, helping local firms? Tracking that would give us a clearer picture of what this ranking means for Mauritius.
10/10 Set a twelve-month agenda: test projects, publish results and expand what works. Our small size could help us experiment and learn quickly. The next ranking will be interesting. Tangible improvements in Mauritians’ lives will matter more.
9/10 Kreol Morisien deserves a place in this effort: voice tools, transcription and access to services. Support local datasets and testing, with consent and privacy protections. Inclusion also depends on the language people use every day.
8/10 Young people need real projects. Create paid assignments linking students, SMEs and researchers: reducing hotel waste, helping farmers monitor crops, making archives searchable. Set clear goals and evaluate the results.
7/10 In public services, start with specific problems: incomplete applications, hard-to-find documents, repetitive enquiries. Run limited pilots with human oversight. Publish the costs, processing times and error rates before and after.
6/10 For SMEs, offer practical support: identify one repetitive task, test a tool and measure the result. Quotes, stock management, translation, customer follow-up… Small businesses should be able to try AI without paying for an expensive consultancy project.
5/10 In schools, teach students to check AI answers, spot fabricated sources, protect their data and explain their reasoning. Give teachers practical training too. Knowing how to prompt a chatbot is only one part of understanding how to use AI well.
4/10 A national strategy, an AI Unit, a lab in Ébène and training programmes provide foundations. @AvinashRamtohul Would be useful to have regular progress reports: who has gained practical skills? Which projects work? What has improved for the people using them?
3/10 The study projects a potential $234 million uplift to Mauritius’s GDP over ten years, rising to $355 million in an optimistic scenario. These are conditional estimates. Turning that potential into growth will require investment and useful applications.
2/10 One surprising fact: only 61 of 102 indicators are populated for Mauritius. That data gap calls for caution. Eighth place deserves attention, alongside more complete evidence of what our young people can actually do with AI.
1/10 Mauritius ranks 8th among 56 Commonwealth countries for youth AI readiness in the Ayre Index, ahead of every other African member. Encouraging news. But before celebrating, let’s look at what this ranking measures—and what we still need to build.
Bold talk about accountability from a governor who treats every failure in California as an audition for the White House.
Taylor Swift: 14.35M YouTube views on Oct 28, down 2.87% vs last Wednesday. The decline is slowing.
Forecast:
Oct 29: 14.35M (13.9–14.8M)
Oct 30: 14.75M (14.0–15.5M)
Recent Fridays showed a modest lift. Confidence: moderate–low.
#TaylorSwift #YouTubeCharts #SongLens
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