Memo
Sep 06, 2023
Digital technologies could help create the jobs Africa needs — but will there be energy to power them?
Unreliable electricity could derail the promise of Africa’s digital economy.
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Op-Eds
Aug 11, 2020
Why Hasn’t Africa Gone Digital?
Originally appeared in a Scientific American post, August 11, 2020 COVID-19 has spurred massive changes in how the…
Memo
Feb 14, 2022
Imagining the ‘Google’ of electrification: how digital twins and computational systems for continuous planning can reinvent century-old practices
Memo
Jan 05, 2021
Powering Africa’s Data Infrastructure: No Power, No Digital Transformation
Op-Eds
Aug 11, 2020
Scientific American
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Multimedia
Apr 26, 2021
Episode #2 Zainab Usman: What Does Net-Zero Mean for Africans?
The new director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Africa Program on why resource curse thinking is…
Multimedia
Mar 08, 2022
Episode #10 Katie Hill: The First Pillar of Decarbonization Needs to be Green Growth
Hill, Partner & Associate Director at Boston Consulting Group, talks about the future for African cities, the imperative…
Memo
Jul 27, 2020
Back to Basics: Tech entrepreneurs in Nigeria need a cheap, reliable and continuous supply of electricity
Media Coverage
Jan 31, 2021
Financial Times
Cabling Africa: the great data race to serve the ‘last billion’ →
team
Sep 12, 2018
Katie Hill
Op-Eds
Apr 19, 2022
Electric transport offers Kenya a way out of its fuel crises
Originally posted in Business Daily, April 19, 2022 Over the past two weeks, Kenyans have been forced to…
team
Sep 12, 2018
Varun Sivaram
team
Nov 26, 2018
Moussa Blimpo
Memo
Nov 05, 2018
Empowered Planning with Models, Satellites, & Machine Learning
Infographics
Nov 13, 2018
Infographic – Are We Learning the Right Energy Lesson from Mobile Phones? The Energy Iceberg Says No
The mobile phone revolution is allowing countries to skip landlines, prompting many observers to assume countries might also skip building an electricity grid and jump right to distributed home energy systems (e.g., here and here). New disruptive technologies are exciting and alluring, especially in sub-Saharan markets where the unmet infrastructure needs are huge. After all, if you can charge your smartphone with a rooftop solar kit, then who needs power plants and a grid?
