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Mohamed ZOGHLAMI, co-founder of Afric’Up, an event dedicated to innovation and digital entrepreneurship made in Africa, expert in digital creative industry, analyzes the development of the sector in Africa. Its potential, its shortcomings as well. Starting with the training component.
Franco-Cameroonian and lawyer by training, Julie OWONO, 33 years old, is the Executive Director of the NGO Internet Without Borders. She’s also a searcher for the Berman Klein Centre at Harvard University and a Digital Civil Society member at Stanford. She is one of the 24 independent experts nominated by UNESCO to work on “the first draft recommendation on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence.” Last May, she was nominated for the new Facebook oversight board, whose mission is to ensure individual data’s respect on the platform.
Associate in the Deloitte French-speaking Africa and in charge of ICT activities for this region, Karim KOUNDI analyses the evolution of the e-commerce sector through four factors he thinks are determinant. Interview.
Bertrand FOFFE, Cameroonian, launched Jangolo, a company specialized in AgriTech. With more than 10 000 users and 400 companies in the agro-livestock and food sectors in its network, Jangolo offers solutions to answering issues farmers face in Cameroon and the continent.
Airbus BizLab is a global aerospace business accelerator where start-ups and Airbus intrapreneurs speed-up the transformation of innovative ideas into valuable businesses. Since starting in 2015, Airbus BizLab has used this “hybrid” concept to accelerate 72 start-ups and 54 internal projects, which have raised a combined €23.5 million. Explanation with its initiator, Reymound-Yaw BUCKMAN.
In light of the Covid-19 crisis, what can we say about the resilience of African startups? Their strengths, but also their weaknesses and how to better support them? So many questions addressed by Khaled BEN JILANI, partner at AfricInvest.
In the Covid-19 crisis context, Charlotte LIBOG, founder of the Think and Do Tank Afrique Grenier du Monde (AGM), calls upon governments to accelerate the creation of policies enabling the development of AgriTech. An opportunity to promote African agribusiness and reach an inclusive and sustainable growth.
To promote the development of e-commerce in Africa, it remains to strengthen skills, especially SMEs. Two instruments can allow it to start developing its human, technological and commercial capacities in electronic commerce: the AfCFTA and the DTS.
Among the many challenges inherent in the take-off of electronic and digital commerce in Africa, it is to reform the laws and regulations in order to free it from its shackles.
With the AfCFTA, e-commerce has the potential to contribute towards increasing intra-African trade and therefore help realize the objectives of the Boosting Intra-African Trade Action Plan, and meet the objectives of Agenda 2063.
