Dashboards aren't neutral: which metrics get screen space decides what leaders fund
Dashboards are sold as objective "single sources of truth," but every chart hides curatorial choices about what gets measured. What leaders can't see, they don't fund: trust, care quality, and local realities vanish because they defy easy quantification. The piece argues a "visibility equals value" trap now hands outsize power to the BI developers setting the thresholds. Critical reading for African public sectors racing into automated governance.