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Christmas Break / Issue #100
See you in 2022.
MainOne's value
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Data centers and national sovereignty
Also, to incentivize the growth of the larger digital economy, these services are often subsidized for non-government clients.But this model has significant challenges. Government isn’t a homogenous organization where you can just instruct the different parts…
Social tokens - The opportunity
If more creators and celebrities embrace social tokens like $ECHOKE, we should see some trends start to emerge such as direct-to-consumer relationships and portable communities.
Full API transparency
Screen scraping isn’t illegal, but most people in tech would agree that APIs are a neater way for service integrations.
Non-telco-led mobile money
Expecting a mobile money revolution after the creation of PSBs will be expecting too much.
Chipper Cash’s product stack
How Chipper Cash is able to provide free and subsidized services.
eNaira: Takeoff
What the CBN is doing is similar to fixing a plane in the air.
Facebook’s metaverse includes Africa
Facebook wants to bring Africa into its metaverse
Eden Life and Nigeria’s upwardly mobile workforce
Nigeria is the largest black nation, but it often punches well below its weight when it comes to market size for tech products.
Home-grown solutions for Africa's creator economy
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Andela, what next?
Andela has turned the mantra "talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not" into a business model and now could acquire businesses that followed its blueprint.
eNaira: How dangerous is programmability?
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Glovo and Nigeria’s food delivery app landscape
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Making Waves, slaying giants
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Corporate Africa vs. the unvaccinated
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OPay: Built fast, built to last
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Amending NITDA’s amendment
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Neobanks: pre-profit and high valuations
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Pausing Africa's Big Brother surveillance programs
Are the AI systems used for surveillance in Africa good enough?