Africa’s Digital Revolution: Learning from Global Cultures of Innovation Dr. Ali Colleen Neff

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Right now, the African digital revolution is unfolding in really exciting ways. So much of this is because Africa has shown its capacity to recognize and resource innovation at every step, with engineers adapting technology to suit the specific needs and dynamics of the continent instead of the other way around.
We are hopeful in the possibility that digital globalization will be a democratizing, equalizing revolution. This dream is what industry forces like Facebook, Microsoft, and a series of global telecom companies are tapping into as they finish laying 500 miles of cable throughout West Africa. In fact, the United Nations has prioritized the availability of Broadband throughout the Global South as it anticipates how important digital equality will be to the emerging world economy.
But in addition to the great possibilities it carries, we also know that digital globalization has given rise to all kinds of digital divides, which is a way of talking about how the global village we like to envision has really become an uneven landscape.