INTO AFRICA October 2018 Edition – Digitalization: Africa’s Future

Welcome to the October 2018 edition of INTO AFRICA, a publication with fresh insight into Africa’s emerging capital markets. This month’s edition, titled: Digitalization: Africa’s Future.

Across Africa, eCommerce platforms flanked by payments, logistics, tourism and big data partners are starting to lift national economies. Technological disruption is transforming markets and societies across Africa in ways that wouldn’t have been possible even five years ago. And this opens huge and still largely untapped commercial potential for domestic and international businesses.

The key to Africa’s achieving its own digital revolution has been innovation at every step, adapting technology to suit the specific needs and dynamics of the continent instead of the other way around. We believe digital innovation is key to unlocking new markets and the adoption of digital technology enables companies to reduce the cost of servicing clients, to tailor products to the needs of specific income groups, and to streamline internal processes. And to successfully apply and leverage innovative technology along the value chain, technology needs to be embedded into a digital mind-set that focuses on agility, collaboration and flexibility.

We open the discourse with MARK WALKER (Associate Vice President, Sub Saharan Africa, International Data Corporation) who shared some insight into era of digital transformations in developing countries. He highlighted that one of the biggest impacts of the digital economy is that it removes traditional barriers to entry, and organisations must change the way they view their competitive environment.

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