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 »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 »Guatemala: Fintech Capital of Hispanic America?
September 1st, 2022
Via Rest of World, a report on Guatemala’s adoption of fintech: After a little while in Guatemala City, one particular thing struck me. Every venue that allowed me to pay by card also greeted me with the option of contactless payment. Readers from the U.S. won’t bat an eyelid at this, but, as a person […]
Read more »Indonesia’s Maritime Ambitions
August 26th, 2022
Via Frontier Post, a commentary on Indonesia’s maritime ambitions: On 26 July 2022, Indonesian President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo met with Chinese President Xi Jinping in China. The meeting was a surprise given Beijing’s strict zero-COVID-19 policy. A main outcome was the renewal of the memorandum of understanding on cooperation between Indonesia’s Global Maritime Fulcrum (GMF), a framework […]
Read more »DR Congo Seeks To ‘Reclaim History’ With Economic Reforms
August 26th, 2022
Courtesy of The Financial Times, an article on Democratic Republic of Congo’s ‘big, ambitious economic agenda’ backed by international lenders: The finance minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo longs for the days when his country was pushing forward as an African industrial hub. “In this country, we made batteries for our vehicles; we used […]
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.