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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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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
Memo
Mar 28, 2024
Three Steps to Unlock the Potential of AI in Africa
Part 2 of Research Director Rose Mutiso's series on artificial intelligence in Africa.
Op-Eds
Aug 11, 2020
Why Hasn’t Africa Gone Digital? →
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…
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…
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’ →
Op-Eds
Mar 28, 2024
AI in Africa: Basics Over Buzz
Part 1 of Research Director Rose Mutiso's series on artificial intelligence in Africa.
Blog
Feb 14, 2025
Are Data Centers Africa’s Next Big Bet?
Podcast
Feb 05, 2025
Episode #29 Faten Aggad: Building Africa’s Policy Negotiation Power
Memo
Oct 15, 2024
Power Solutions for a Growing Services Sector
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…
