00:00What if Africa were the next Silicon Valley?
00:02Civil war, coup d'état, terrorism, economic, climatic or humanitarian crisis
00:07here is the picture that London often draws of Africa.
00:09However, in parallel to this dramatic reality,
00:12the continent is the stage of a race for new technologies.
00:15In 2023, the International Financial Society,
00:18a member of the Group of the World Bank,
00:20stated that the ecosystem of African digital startups is in full swing,
00:23with one of the fastest growth in the world.
00:26Of the 1.2 billion people who populate the continent,
00:2960% are under 25 years old.
00:31The perfect target to adopt new technologies.
00:33Everywhere on the continent, innovative projects emerge.
00:36CME City in Benin, Silicon Savannah in Kenya or even Konza City,
00:41cities designed for the economic and social development of countries.
00:44Tech companies are not left out.
00:46Orange invests a billion euros each year in the deployment of 4G and 5G,
00:50and is also focused on educating people on new technologies.
00:54Since 2011, the Orange Digital Center has been training more than 1 million Africans for free in coding.
00:59Huawei, on the other hand, has trained 60,000 professionals in information technology in Africa
01:04and plans to invest $400 million in an African public cloud and in the development of AI.
01:10Despite this boom of large foreign groups,
01:12Africa is the continent that generates the least investment.
01:15Why?
01:15According to Lionel Zinsou, former Prime Minister of Benin,
01:18it is out of ignorance.
01:20The vision of Europe on Africa stopped in the 80s and 90s.
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