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Africa is not only building new roads and airports but also getting wired up for a vast expansion of digital services. Innovations in ICT are helping fill in the gaps when it comes to things like banking and education and is the engine behind creative new businesses throughout Africa. This episode features stories from the tech campus Seme City in Benin, coders like Betelhem Dessie, and startups like poa! Internet.
In the second half of the how, co-host Carol Pineau leads a roundtable discussion with:
Paula Ingabire, Minister of ICT and Innovation in Rwanda,
Brian Herlihy, founder of SEACOM,
Omosalewa Adeyemi, Global Head of Expansion and Partnerships at Flutterwave.
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