{"id":5248,"date":"2019-09-11T10:36:04","date_gmt":"2019-09-11T07:36:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=5248"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:32","slug":"digital-technologies-are-transforming-african-businesses-but-obstacles-remain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/09\/11\/digital-technologies-are-transforming-african-businesses-but-obstacles-remain\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Technologies Are Transforming African Businesses, But Obstacles Remain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/elvira-bolat-392016\">Elvira Bolat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/profiles\/nasiru-taura-773412\">Nasiru Taura<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital\ntechnology has created new opportunities for businesses in sub-Saharan Africa\nto compete on a more equal footing. However, these businesses have yet to enjoy\nthe full benefits because of a difficult operating environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Our\nrecently published&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.palgrave.com\/us\/series\/15149\">book<\/a>, \u2018Digital Entrepreneurship in Sub-Saharan Africa:\nChallenges, Opportunities and Prospects\u2019, details case studies of economic\nsectors where digital technologies are making a positive impact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In\nGhana, digital technologies have had an impact on the agriculture sector.\nAgri-tech firms like Farmable, Farmer line and Esoko have successfully pursued the\ncreation of new business ventures and renewal of existing, matured corporate\nbusiness models. These agri-tech firms support farmers with pricing data,\ncrowdfunding and communication activities. They are also connecting farmers\nwith buyers as well as helping them work out what differentiates them from\ncompetitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Digital\ntechnologies are playing a role in Nigeria\u2019s agricultural sector too.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/primewavesltd.com\/\">Prime Wave <\/a>, an engineering company that supplies equipment to rice\nprocessing firms, and Al-Wabel Trading Company Ltd, a rice miller, have been\nworking together to invent new technological solutions. These are aimed at\nimproving the performance of rice processing. The innovative solutions the\ncompany came up with for rice processing can be applied more widely across the\nagricultural sector. However, these firms have had to overcome regulatory and\ninstitutional challenges in the sector\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/digital-technologies-are-transforming-african-businesses-but-obstacles-remain-120005\">Read\nmore&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elvira Bolat and Nasiru Taura Digital technology has created new opportunities for businesses in sub-Saharan Africa to compete on a more equal footing. However, these businesses have yet to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}