“Scale” Series – Leila RWAGASANA, Director of Partnerships at Irembo, Rwanda’s pioneering e-government services platform, reflects in this interview on the challenges of scaling up for the continent’s growing companies.

The Smart Classroom program, operational since 2016, has enabled millions of Rwandan school children to access and learn about digital tools. The key will be to put that right and extend the initiative to all the country’s educational institutions.

While Africa has lost 55 billion dollars in travel and tourism since the coronavirus pandemic began, tour operators, in their bid to revive the industry, are innovating by offering tourists virtual tourism experiences. More than an alternative to the COVID crisis, a confirmed trend…Focus.

Series: Make internet affordable in Africa – At 29 years old, the French-Gabonese Selena Souah is making an ambitious step: to democratize internet access in Africa. To do so, she created Revolution’air, a Rwandan Internet service provider with pan-African aims.

On the sidelines of French President Emmanuel MACRON’s visit to Kigali that sealed the rapprochement between France and Rwanda through a series of cooperation agreements, a new axis in Franco-Rwandan relations is taking shape. Around digital development.

Analysis: while the example of Jumia reveals the difficulty of achieving the same profitability of their model, the future of these delivery platforms is very much at stake in their “local” dimension. Do they help promote Made in Africa products? That’s what is at stake. Part three (final).

Jumia, Glovo, Gozem… Super-Apps are multiplying on the continent. Each one has its own model and range of services. If their ambitions to expand regionally have been slowed down by COVID-19, the pandemic has also revealed their flexibility and their ability to adapt to the new needs of the markets where they are based. Part two.

Delivery platforms that were not rather rooted in customs before the pandemic are booming in Africa, boosted by lockdowns. That business is at the same time diversifying. Part one.

Bringing together the actors of cultural and digital creative industries in the continent, but also public officials, investors, technical partners and all those who participate in building this ecosystem, this is the ambition of Raoul RUGAMBA, founder of Africa in Colors.

While the pandemic has halted all tourist activities, Botswana is banking on digital technology to save the season. The country is proposing a digital museum to facilitate access to the country’s heritage and cultural crafts for the international audience.