{"id":6723,"date":"2019-11-21T11:01:08","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T08:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6723"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:42","slug":"how-africa-can-ride-on-tech-to-attain-shared-prosperity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/11\/21\/how-africa-can-ride-on-tech-to-attain-shared-prosperity\/","title":{"rendered":"How Africa Can Ride On Tech To Attain Shared Prosperity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Faustine\nNgila<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Developing\ncountries must immediately take control of their own digital destinies or risk\nlosing out on the Fourth Industrial Revolution race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nsentiments were made during the launch of The Digital Manifesto in Nairobi,\nwhere African nations were urged to be firmly on the driving seat in unlocking\ntheir digital economies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nmanifesto titled The Digital Roadmap: How Developing Countries Can Get Ahead,\nshows how low-income states can harness new technologies to deliver inclusive\ndevelopment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nPathways for Prosperity Commission co-chair and founder of technology and\nenergy group Econet, Strive Masiyiwa highlighted the power of digital\ntechnologies in growing businesses and national economies. He was, however,\nquick to add that to benefit from the new technologies, African countries have\nto design a workable plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDigital tools enable entrepreneurs to access markets and help governments deliver services more efficiently to citizens. However, without visionary planning and 21st century skills training for everyone, these same technologies over time could lead to job losses and escalate financial inclusion snags\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessdailyafrica.com\/corporate\/tech\/How-Africa-can-ride-on-tech-to-attain-shared-prosperity\/4258474-5356148-2ksnxl\/index.html\">Read more>><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Faustine Ngila Developing countries must immediately take control of their own digital destinies or risk losing out on the Fourth Industrial Revolution race. The sentiments were made during the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6724,"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-6723","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\/6723","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=6723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}