The Scramble for Africa’s Data Is Taking Place On The Cloud
September 1st, 2022
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 »Togo’s New Cybersecurity Center Will Serve All of Africa
September 1st, 2022
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 »Papua New Guinea Appoints World’s First Coffee, Palm Oil Ministers
September 1st, 2022
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 »Buckle Up: China Won’t let Laos Become A Belt and Road Debt Trap
September 1st, 2022
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 »China Slowly Undercutting US influence in Latin America With 5 ‘New Factor’ Trade Deals
September 1st, 2022
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 »Vietnam: The World’s New Factory Is Emerging
September 1st, 2022
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 […]
Read more »Focusing primarily on The New Seven Sisters - the largely state owned petroleum companies from the emerging world that have become key players in the oil & gas industry as identified by Carola Hoyos, Chief Energy Correspondent for The Financial Times - but spanning other nascent opportunities around the globe that may hold potential in the years ahead, Wildcats & Black Sheep is a place for the adventurous to contemplate & evaluate the emerging markets of tomorrow.