What African countries risk if they don't accelerate their digital ...

Understanding Africa's data center challenge - DCD

DCD has been told there is a desperate need for digital infrastructure across the continent. For instance, in early 2021, the Africa Data ...

Mapping a Surge of Disinformation in Africa

Disinformation to manipulate African information systems has surged since 2022, triggering destabilizing and antidemocratic consequences.

The Future of Fintech Is Unfolding in Africa

... don't accept digital payments from large portions of the continent. ... African countries can offer up lessons based on their unique experiences.

To Close Africa's Digital Divide, Policy Must Address the Usage Gap

Sub-Saharan Africa was cited as having the highest cost for smartphone devices (see figure 3). For the poorest 20 percent of Africans, the ...

Digital Access: The Future of Financial Inclusion in Africa

When we wrote the Digital Financial Services and Risk. Management Handbook ... if they don't have Congolese francs or dollars in cash, and they can ...

Responsible AI in Africa—Challenges and Opportunities

To this date, 32 African countries have participated in this initiative but over the past decade, internet shutdowns have become a common ...

Closing data gaps to accelerate Africa's transformation

Even though the 2022 Ibrahim Index of African Governance (IIAG) shows that the availability of governance data* for African countries has improved greatly over ...

Accelerating Gender Equality: Let's Make Digital Technology Work ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has among the widest gender gaps in mobile internet use in the world, with over 190 million women not using mobile internet services.

Data protection laws in Africa: What you need to know - CIO

African countries have been trailing their global counterparts when it comes to enacting laws to protect the digital data of their citizens.

Applying US Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights to African Countries

The use of CCTvs with embedded facial recognition technologies has also become more prevalent in Africa. The danger of these systems is the ...

Smart city technology: a potential solution to Africa's growing ...

African nations are encouraged to embrace digital technology to address core development issues while putting adequate measures in place to maintain the ...

AI in Africa | Meeting the Opportunity | Microsoft Blog

In countries like. Nigeria and Kenya, startups such as UjuziKilimo and Farmcrowdy are using AI to analyze soil and weather data to provide farmers with.

Reopening and reimagining Africa - McKinsey

Transform African healthcare systems with a focus on resilience and equity. 1. Accelerate Africa's digital transformation. When the COVID-19 ...

How Barriers to Cross-Border Data Flows Are Spreading Globally ...

The report finds that China, Indonesia, Russia, and South Africa are countries for which their increasing data restrictiveness is leading to ...

Africa's digital solutions to tackle COVID-19

But digital solutions can still significantly help countries fight the pandemic. When addressing digital technology in Africa, it is important ...

Women's Digital Financial Inclusion in Africa

African countries have been some of the pioneers in digital finance, and yet, across the continent, 400 million people, most of them women, don't have access to.

Online learning during COVID19 and beyond: a human right based ...

Africa will achieve its universal broadband objective when it brings 1.1billion residents of the continent online. This is an aspiration with a ...

The promises and perils of Africa's digital revolution

The rapid spread of the internet across the African continent has been heralded as a key driver of prosperity and a sign of the continent's technological ...

Digitizing communities to drive Cisco's purpose

The mission of Cisco's Country Digital Acceleration (CDA) program is to power an inclusive future by unlocking the value of digitization.

3. Themes: The most harmful or menacing changes in digital life that ...

... African Development Community region, which includes 16 countries in South Africa ... This will become a national security issue if we don't ...