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With nearly 500 million players worldwide, e-sports have passed the historic milestone of one billion dollars generated in revenue in 2020. A growing sector where Africa confirms its entry. Expert in Gaming & E-sport, Désiré KOUSSAWO tells us the keys to this growth.
Sinatou SAKA, a journalist specializing in digital entrepreneurship in Africa and Editorial Project Manager of RFI and France 24, founded the Idemi Africa platform to promote and help create digital media in African languages on the web. This is an economic issue, but also a social one according to her.
Women’s innovation movement JFD inaugurated on March 23 its first growth accelerator in Africa, at the heart of Libreville, Gabon, the 6th most connected African country in the world and the future digital hub of Central and West Africa, according to a World Bank report. Delphine REMY-BOUTANG, CEO of JFD, President of the Global Entrepreneurship Network France and Camélia NTOUTOUME LECLERCQ, Minister Delegate to the Minister of Higher Education, Scientific Research and Technology Transfer and JFD Ambassador tell more.
Orange Digital Ventures, now Orange Ventures, has a budget of 350 million euros to invest in technology companies. At the heart of their target, Africa. Explanations with Grégoire de PADIRAC, Principal at Orange Ventures Middle East & Africa.
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.
“There should be more collaboration between different actors, up to the last link in the chain, the entrepreneurs.” For Sheilah BIRGEN, specialist in the pan-African tech ecosystem, AfCFTA is a great opportunity to promote “made in Africa” solutions and young entrepreneurs. With certain conditions…
EuroQuity, a networking platform for companies, investors and support structures was created in 2008 by Bpifrance. It is a founding member of Africa Next. A community of players committed to co-investing in innovative companies in hyper-growth, bringing together French and English-speaking venture capitalists from Europe and Africa – who select projects on the basis of e-pitches. With more than a hundred investors present for the last session, the attractiveness of Africa is confirmed… and diversified. Gilles LE COCGUEN, Director of EuroQuity provides explanations.
Specialist in training, employment and entrepreneurship issues in Africa, Didier ACOUETEY, founder of AfricSearch and the Africa SME Champions Forum platform, looks back on the “resilience” of African companies in 2020 and analyzes the African technological ecosystem.
A mechanical engineer, Nneile NKHOLISE, is co-founder & CEO 3DIMO, which automates livestock data analysis to monitor animal health. She is the 2021 winner of the Margaret Entrepreneur Africa Award. Portrait.
After Tunisia and Senegal, Ethiopia is home to the third Orange Digital Center in Africa and the Middle East, the first in East Africa. Located in Addis Ababa’s ICT Park, the ODC completes an Ethiopian tech ecosystem in full bloom… Interview with Hatoumata MAGASSA, Director of Orange Digital Center Ethiopia.
