All over Africa, there is a significant realization that tech is the wave of the future. African government ministers are traveling around the world – from
San Francisco to the UAE to Bangladesh – pitching opportunities for new investors and building deals. Technology has also quickly become a major item on the development agenda, thanks in large part to Africa's new tech champions and a blooming tech sector.
This, of course, is not completely new news.
However, in today’s emerging markets ICT world, especially in Africa, two things are different:
The second difference is the increasingly active private sector, and its willingness to work with Government and civil society on all manner of partnerships.
The first difference is
leadership. African leaders, including presidents like
Kagame, Kufuor and Johnson-Sirleaf, are more ICT-focused than their predecessors, offering high-level support to projects and policies that will really (not just rhetorically) help the spread of ICT.
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