DCA Digital Digest: #TAS2017: Presidential Panel discusses digital transformation.
May 12, 2017
Digital transformation is sweeping the world and making big inroads in Africa, where 600-million people are expected to be Internet users by 2025, when there will be four-billion connected devices on the continent.
2. Africa has three years to meet 2020 internet access deadline
Public-private partnerships and bridging the digital divide will help Africa meet the Broadband Commission target of providing at least 50% of its population with internet access by 2020.
Source : IT Web Africa
Source : IT Web Africa
3. Role of ICT in improving levels of Higher Education in Africa
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have become inseparable entities in all aspects of human life.
4. Is the internet really democratic? How the ‘wired world’ excludes women and other marginalised persons?
The internet has not only made information more freely available but has changed the very way we understand knowledge and information. However, the internet is not really fair and democratic as we once believed it could be.
Source: World Wide Web Foundation
Source: World Wide Web Foundation
If Africa’s burgeoning young population holds the key to the region’s economic fortunes the future looks bright, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said in a statement on Tuesday, on the eve of the opening of its annual Africa meeting.
Source: The Citizen
Source: The Citizen
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