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Bridging continents: The role of connectivity in Africa’s digital transformation

CIO

Simply put, there is a direct link between economic progress and IT infrastructure, with robust trade dependent on a strong digital foundation. Interconnection opens access to foreign markets, but it also encourages cross-continental trade. The first challenge Africa must tackle is increasing interconnection throughout the continent.

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How social commerce is bridging Southeast Asia’s infrastructure gaps

TechCrunch

The $2 billion to $3 billion social commerce market in India today is estimated to hit $70 billion in value by 2030, empowering around 40 million small entrepreneurs. The social commerce model leverages community leaders and influencers’ connections to generate sales by marketing directly to their friends and family.

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Scale Computing secures $55M to help companies manage edge infrastructure

TechCrunch

Managing a fleet of edge devices across locations can be a burden on IT teams that lack the necessary infrastructure. “The self-healing platform automatically identifies, mitigates, and corrects problems in the infrastructure in real time, enabling applications to achieve maximum uptime even when local IT resources and staff are scarce.”

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The Case for Reshaping Traditional Industries with Tech

CIO

The new Global Digitalization Index or GDI jointly created with IDC measures the maturity of a country’s ICT industry by factoring in multiple indicators for digital infrastructure, including computing, storage, cloud, and green energy. This is something that Huawei has been focused on for some time.

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How newcomer River plans to fill a gap in India’s competitive EV two-wheeler market

TechCrunch

In February, Walmart-owned Flipkart said it would deploy more than 25,000 electric vehicles in its supply chain by 2030. But River’s co-founders contend their new vehicle and business model fills a gap in the market. River is not going to take on the costly task of building out charging infrastructure.

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Storm in the stratosphere: how the cloud will be reshuffled

Erik Bernhardsson

You didn't have to set up any infrastructure yourself, or write custom mapreduce and reload the jobtracker all day. I think this was a real benefit for Snowflake, since a lot of their early customers were banks who care about multi-cloud, but more generally it also expands the market size vs the reach of any cloud vendor.

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Nigeria’s AltSchool raises $1M pre-seed to build an alternative school for Africans

TechCrunch

The demand for software engineers is expected to grow by 22% between 2020 and 2030, according to a report by the U.S. That’s one of the reasons we launched AltSchool because if a lot of people can have marketable skills, then I think we can solve a massive problem in the market.”. Bureau of Labor Statistics.