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ECOWAS Receives $10.5 Million Grant from World Bank for Digital Transformation Program
Published date : 04 Apr 2024

The World Bank has announced a disbursement of $10.5 million, equivalent to over 6 billion CFA francs, to support the ECOWAS Commission in its Digital Transformation for Africa / West Africa Regional Digital Integration Program (DTfA/WARDIP). This funding aims to promote internet access in ECOWAS member countries.

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Agritech: World Bank invests $40 million in climate research
Published date : 18 Mar 2024

The World Bank announces a $40 million funding for the Accelerating the Impact of Climate Research in Africa (AICCRA) project, aiming to promote climate-smart agricultural technologies and enhance food security in six African countries.

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World Bank : accelerating Digital Transformation in West Africa
Published date : 30 Nov 2023
World Bank provides $266.5 million to boost connectivity, promote a single digital market, increase job opportunities, and close gender gaps in digital skills, digital financial services, and entrepreneurship.
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Rwanda: Smart Classrooms, a digital solution to promote student learning
Published date : 30 Sep 2021
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.
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Ethiopia – An application to support women entrepreneurs
Published date : 12 Nov 2020
In Ethiopia, an app is helping women entrepreneurs during the Covid-19 crisis. The application uses data from selling points to generate information and help those companies improve their operations, maximize their profits, and ease credit access.
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Faster, cheapest, more accessible… The African champions of connectivity
Published date : 15 Sep 2020
If Africa stays far away from other continents concerning access to the Internet, it wins some places in subscription prices. However, it looses in the speed connexion ranking.
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INTERVIEW – Boutheïna GUERMAZI “Ambitious public-private financing”
Published date : 31 Aug 2021
Serie: Make Internet affordable for Africa – Director of Digital Development at the World Bank, Boutheïna GUERMAZI invites public and private actors to mobilize in order to democratize access to the Internet, in particular by setting up ambitious public-private financing.
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