Digital Africa - David Keene - February 26th 2015 - Imperial Business School

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David KeeneDigital Africa

Social GraphContext & Identity

Social StructureMobile First

Internet of ThingsSensors

WearablesCities/Homes

Time and LocationGlobal, Local Location

New Business Structure

GenX

What’s Happening?in the Connected World

GenY

Connectivity & CloudAlways On, Low-cost,

Networks, Compute & Storage

Big DataCloud Analytics

Insight & Understanding

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"Failure has been systematic: of Nigeria’s 79 power stations, only 17 are working. All of this increases political risk.

Some African countries could collapse by 2020 unless they can power an industrial base."

Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt, DR Congo, SA, Tanzania, Kenya Population |1.2 Billion |2 Billion 2050

Mobile, social, payments, health, education and cloudTechnologies|Not Keeping Pace

Growth without infrastructure

Dark continent, 4% of global electricity use Infrastructure|Systemic Failure

Expected to grow by US$400 billion by 2020Markets |Exploding Consumer Industries

And What About Digital Africa?

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the future in coastal Africa is fibre - land

locked areas?

Consumerised, easy-to-use and low-cost

Android phone becoming ubiquitous

MobileGeography

new technologies emerge to connect

everyone

digital transforms economics of small and large business

massive opportunities for enhanced access

EducationBusinessInnovation

Apps

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Global Connection Density

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Coastal Focus

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Web

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Social

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Revolution 2.0 - The Arab Spring - Wael Ghonim, Google

https://www.ted.com/talks/wael_ghonim_inside_the_egyptian_revolution?language=en@dkeene

How Can We Get More Land Locked Connectivity?

Project Loon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYzhqe9eyCI@dkeene

What About Mobile?

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Changing mobile infrastructure for Africa

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Country Specifics - Kenya, SA, Nigeria

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Android One - Sub 50$ Smart Phones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7UPR9z3OV8@dkeene

Supporting Education

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4NHadSKbUM@dkeene

Above All Africa is an Entrepreneurial Story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0328nGeu-w@dkeene

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Working with businesses in Africa

Store

Publish

Find

Connect

Communicate

Create

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Mobile first team collaboration for fast growth innovators

Intranet

File Server

Email

Cloud

USB

3

Customers

Partners

Suppliers

Team

ShareAccess

?

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All your work,

safe,

available everywhere

and easy to share

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Google confidential | Do not distributeEnterprise

the future in coastal Africa is fibre - land

locked areas?

Consumerised, easy-to-use and low-cost

Android phone becoming ubiquitous

MobileGeography

new technologies emerge to connect

everyone

digital transforms economics of small and large business

massive opportunities for enhanced access

EducationBusinessInnovation

Apps

@dkeene@dkeene

David Keene

Thank You

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