Via Quartz, a look at cloud based services in Africa: The demand for cloud-based services in Africa is rising, but the continental tech ecosystem is largely underepresented in the provision of these services. While there has been a rise in the number of data centers across Africa, keeping on-premise servers running and secure generates huge extra […]
Read more »Via Quartz, an article on Togo’s leadership in Africa’s cybersecurity space: A new cybersecurity center in Togo is poised to add into efforts by individual African countries to secure the continent’s cyberspace. In November 2021, Kaspersky reported that Nigeria, South Africa, and Kenya recorded a combined total of 81 million cyber attacks in three months, signaling how […]
Read more »Via TRT World, an article on Papua New Guinea’s new Minister for Coffee, a position believed to be the world’s first: Prime Minister of Papua New Guinea James Marape has announced an inaugural minister for coffee, in what is believed to be the world’s first. The post shows the government’s commitment to expanding key agriculture […]
Read more »Courtesy of the Asia Times, commentary on China’s unwillingness to stomach the financial and political ramifications of a Laotian infrastructure loan default: Laos faces unprecedented financial difficulties, including US$14.5 billion worth of public and publicly guaranteed debt – around half of which is owed to China. But unlike Sri Lanka, there is no chance that Laos […]
Read more »Via South China Morning Post, an article on China’s efforts to slowly undercut US influence in Latin America with 5 ‘new factor’ trade deals with Ecuador, Uruguay, Panama, Colombia and Nicaragua, having already penned agreements with Chile, Costa Rica and Peru: China stands to secure prized natural resources while vying with the United States for allies […]
Read more »Via the Sunday Times, a report on Vietnam’s manufacturing surge: On any given work day, Nguyen* wakes early in his cramped rental room in a boarding house in Binh Duong, the heavily industrialised province that neighbours Ho Chi Minh City in southern Vietnam. Nguyen is one of millions of Vietnamese who work in the country’s […]
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