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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
Scientific American
Why Hasn’t Africa Gone Digital? →
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’ →
Op-Eds
Mar 28, 2024
Science
AI in Africa: Basics Over Buzz
Part 1 of Research Director Rose Mutiso's series on artificial intelligence in Africa.
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…
Memo
Nov 05, 2018
Empowered Planning with Models, Satellites, & Machine Learning
team
Sep 12, 2018