DCA Digital Digest: Can Solar Power Drive Bitcoin Mining in Africa?

1. Can Solar Power Drive Bitcoin Mining in Africa?

For many, cryptocurrency mining is providing a big leap forward. Communities have sprouted up across the region. But with global bitcoin mining using more power than most African countries (only South Africa, Egypt and Algeria consume more), it’s hard to see how it’s going to be sustainable on the continent.

2. Creating an E-learning strategy that works

In a fast-paced digital world, the adoption of technology devices in African schools is at an all-time high. With education being a key foundation for Africa’s development, progress has been made over the past decade and according to a recent report by Ambient Insight, Africa has the highest growth rates in e-learning in the world.
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3. How AI will underpin cyber security in the next few years

Cyber criminals continue to launch increasingly sophisticated and devastating attacks on industrial, business and financial organisations around the world – and the damage from such crime could reach $6tn by 2021, according to a report from Cybersecurity Ventures.
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4.  African businesses increase cloud budgets to scale operations

Cloud computing is reaching ubiquitous adoption among enterprises in Africa. Shrinking IT budgets and increasing pressure to ‘do more with less’ is making cloud computing an attractive option for businesses that want to scale their operations.
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