Thursday 28 April 2016

How mobile is driving creativity in Africa (WEF)

A Somali man browses the internet on his mobile phone at a beach along the Indian Ocean coastline in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, January 10, 2014. Somali rebel group al Shabaab has banned the use of the Internet in the Horn of Africa country, giving telecom operators 15 days to comply with the order, the militants said. "Any company or person who fails to comply with the rule will be dealt with according to the Islamic sharia," the group said in a statement posted on the Internet.

Chanzo Capital is an early stage micro-VC firm that provides capital and mentorship to high-tech startups in Kenya, the Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Ghana and South Africa (the so-called KINGS of Africa’s digital economy). Eric Osiakwan, managing partner of Chanzo, is a tech entrepreneur and angel investor with 15 years of ICT (information and communications technology) industry leadership across Africa and elsewhere. He has worked in several African countries setting up ISPs (Internet service providers) and high-tech startups. He cofounded the Angel Africa List and Angel Fair Africa, and sits on the boards of several companies. “We Africans are going to lead the 21st century through technology,” he says in this interview with Knowledge@Wharton, which was conducted in Ethiopia at a leadership summit organized by the Wharton alumni club of Africa.

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/04/how-mobile-is-driving-creativity-in-africa




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