Sixty years today, African nations joined forces to form the Organization of African Unity. The OAU aimed not only to promote unity but also to break the last ties of colonization that held several countries and peoples of southern Africa together. Its successor, the African Union, pursues this goal of unity while seeking democratic representation, economic liberation, development and security for its 55 member states.
Soixante ans aujourd’hui, les nations africaines ont uni leurs forces pour former l’Organisation de l’unité africaine. L’OUA visait non seulement à promouvoir l’unité, mais aussi à briser les derniers liens de colonisation qui retenaient plusieurs pays et peuples d’Afrique australe. L’organisation qui lui a succédé, l’Union africaine, poursuit cet objectif d’unité, tout en recherchant la représentation démocratique, la libération économique, le développement et la sécurité pour ses 55 États membres.
🌍AFRICA IS STILL EXTERNALLY EXTRAVERTED BUILDING more PORTS THAN INTERNALLY INTERCONNECTED WITH INTEGRATED INFRASTRUCTURE OF COMMUNICATIONS AND TRANSPORTS 🌍
Understanding private sector involvement in the AfCFTA: The narrative around a successful African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)—its potential to increase intra-African trade by 15 to 25 percent, or $50 billion to $70 billion—is promising, but if African businesses do not efficiently utilize this landmark agreement, its ultimate success will be limited. Since the private sector is directly involved in cross-border trade, it is a major stakeholder and beneficiary of the AfCFTA. Thus, to better understand how African businesses are approaching the AfCFTA and, more importantly, how the AfCFTA can best support those businesses through trade, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) created the AfCFTA Country Business Index (ACBI).
The ACBI is a new AfCFTA-focused, ease-of-doing business index and is based on a robust theoretical framework and data collection process. It enables relevant policy makers to identify bottlenecks in intra African trade at a country level, which informs the barriers impeding effective AfCFTA implementation from the perspective of the private sector.
It aims to inform African policymakers on the trade barriers and guide AfCFTA national strategies.
The ACBI aims to ensure that the African Continental Free Trade Area delivers on its projected sustainable development promises, especially for women-owned and small- and medium-sized businesses (SMEs).
The ACBI captures three dimensions relevant to the understanding of the AfCFTA and related negotiations:
1. The ease of trading goods across Africa; 2. Firm awareness and use of African free trade agreements (FTAs) and the AfCFTA; 3. Business environment related to trade in services, intra-African investment, intellectual property rights, and competition policy. https://lnkd.in/eBSunxsu
Africa Sky is not the Limit: To Be 5 Stars or To Be 5 G
What is 5G?
A: 5G is the 5th Generation Mobile Network.
It is a new global wireless standard after 1G, 2G, 3G, and 4G networks. 5G enables a new kind of network that is designed to connect virtually everyone and everything together including machines, objects, and devices.
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I don’t see the deployment of 5G in Africa as necessarily a positive development. The vast majority (70 to 80%) of Africans do not have access to and cannot afford even basic mobile internet service. I think it’s more important to take the path to provide widespread and affordable mobile internet service. Here are some arguments as to why deploying 5G in Africa before addressing availability and affordability of mobile internet service. (My reply is long and continues as replies to my message.) Why is deploying 5G in Africa, where 70 to 80% of Africans cannot afford even the most basic mobile internet service a bad idea? >It is a waste of resources. The money that is being spent on deploying 5G could be better spent on improving access to basic mobile internet services for everyone. >It widens the digital divide. The deployment of 5G will only benefit the wealthiest and most privileged people in Africa, while the majority of people will be left behind. >It is not sustainable. The cost of 5G services is likely to be prohibitive for most people in Africa, and the technology is not sustainable in the long term. Continued Like 1Reply
-It is a distraction. The focus should be on improving access to basic mobile internet services for everyone, not on deploying 5G. -5G is not necessary for economic development. There is no evidence that 5G is necessary for economic development. In fact, some studies have shown that there is no correlation between the deployment of 5G and economic growth. -5G is not a priority for most Africans. A recent survey found that only 10% of Africans believe that 5G is a priority for their country. The majority of Africans are more concerned with basic needs, such as food, water, and education. -5G is a distraction from other important issues. The deployment of 5G is a distraction from other important issues, such as poverty, inequality, and climate change. These are the issues that should be prioritized, not 5G. Instead of deploying 5G, governments and telecom companies in Africa should focus on improving access to basic mobile internet services for everyone. There are a variety of ways to do this including basing mobile internet service on new, more affordable technologies.
When Miko Rwayitare launched the first GSM in DRC (former Zaire) early 90 and ahead of USA, people like you told him that Cell phone wasn’t needed in Africa and he should build fixe phone service. At that time Zaire has less than 10,000 fixe phone lines and the GSM phone was costing over $3,000. Miko network covered 12 countries. Same with Celtel and MTN. By the ways do you understand what 5G is about? Have you ever traveled to Africa. Digital payment generates over 1 $trillion every year and Sub-Saharan Africa generates 70% of this amount. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miko_Rwayitare
Willy (Wilfrid) Aissi Please understand, I’m not advocating against mobile internet service for Africa and Africans (of which 5G) is the latest generation. In fact it’s quite the opposite. I am advocating FOR universal mobile internet service for Africa and Africans. And I’m saying that installing 5G won’t get you there. This is all about where you want to make your investments. In high end 5G that few people can afford? Or in making mobile internet service affordable of the majority of people in Africa? I think the later is the better choice. This is what I am about. And yes, I have been to Africa. I spent more time in Africa, in Kenya than my one time neighbor, Pres. Barack Obama. Getting to know the people there had a significant effect on me. And I’ve been the principal investigator on two US Federally funded programs related to mobile internet communications, and data and voip communications security. All manners of data communications is kinda my thing. If you’re interested in making it possible that the majority of people in Africa can have affordable mobile internet service, then please send me an invitation to connect. I’d love to discuss the matter with you and how we might make it happen.
Gary Dorst They build two line roads, we called express lines, they called them Freeways and they get accident with overhauled trucks and buses overloaded. Africa does not need only access to the internet, it needs first building the basic foundations of infrastructure at every level of communications between humans. There are places in Africa that even the camel with its long legs cannot access given the complete lack of means of communications and transportation. The cities have even roads that are not even paved or useable by bicycles or carossas, so jumping to 5G is diving in the precipice of show-off like building Shopping Malls in the middle of the desert. Fashion oblige. Like 1 Reply
Said El Mansour CherkaouiTo quote you “… jumping to 5G is diving in the precipice of show-off [is] like building Shopping Malls in the middle of the desert.” I believe we are in agreement. But what I would like to do and to see is to have investment in and effort put forward to providing to the greatest possible degree affordable, universal mobile internet service in Africa, for Africans. Here’s a quote from the Alliance for an Affordable Internet (Feb. 2023): It is more urgent than ever to focus on affordable and meaningful mobile broadband internet access to deliver on the promise and opportunities of digital development in developing countries of the Global South, with special attention to rural areas and least developed countries (LDCs). In order to achieve the universal goals for reducing inequality and achieving universal access by 2030, it is crucial to have clear frameworks that can guide and speed up progress. From Thomson Reuters Foundation News June 2022: As young Africans push to be online, data cost stands in the way. From Inc Africa Nov. 2022: Research suggests that the continent could be growing much faster [economically] if mobile connectivity costs could be forced down. Celebrate 1
Gary Dorst Technology which does not elevate the social standard of living and does not drive people to better level of participation in the making of their own destiny, this kind of technology will stay at the bay of the social progress Innovation is to be developed as a responses for the development of our own humanity without just a consideration from the SWOT on the level of the mercantile profit making If that is the case, the rulers and their direct clientele and courtesan subordinates will be served while the rest will be like the peons living outside of inner circles inside of the technological fortress As International Business Manager at Sprint Corp, and Liaison with Global One French and Deutsch Telecom, I promoted to my upper Managers recommendations on the internet for U.S. small businesses to connect with their foreign peers and have strategic alliances with the PTT / Global One My Top Guys could not visualize my vision and wanted to sell phone cards to the U.S. Multinationals like Bechtel and US Oil Corp. Decades after we are still lacking these connections with Africa
Nigeria with the highest number of subscribers is not a major market, even eclipsed by Kenya? Your stats and conclusions are suspect. The number of subscribers in Nigeria is much higher than the total population of Kenya or South Africa.
Thought as much – biased statistics no doubt, irrespective of the disappointments Nigeria has recorded, they cannot sideline such a nation with her highest number of subscribers, a leading economic power house in Africa.
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Left to Right: Dr. Hamed Faheem Executive Director CITD – Dr. Said E. Cherkaoui Senior Consultant – Dr. Babacar Ndiaye, 5th elected President of African Development Bank 1985-1995 | African Development Bank – Gentleman from Nigeria: President of the African Chamber of Commerce in Northwest of USA. Picture taken during the First International Conference on Africa during the Presidency of Clinton in the US. Dr. Cherkaoui organized this conference in collaboration with the East Bay Center for International Trade Development in Oakland.
International Conference on Africa, Berkeley, California, USA
Since my early studies at Institut des Etudes Politiques of the Grenoble University, the development and integration of Africa were at the forefront of my studies and topics of my presentations in seminaries and essay-papers. It was natural that I continue to work and increase the awarness about Africa and its needs of establishing new kind of relations with other countries other than the past metropolitan and colonialists.
Conference on North Sahara and South Sahara Africa – US Department of Commerce – San Francisco – California
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Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui 9/11/2020 – El Jadida – Morocco – Oakland – California What are the prominent hurdles and hindrances for the Integration of Africa through Ecommerce and Digital Business ★ Inadequate terrestrial broadband backbone ★ High costs of broadband access (last-mile) limit growth of the cloud-computing market ★ Poor quality of service…Continue Reading →
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The Clouded Bright-Side of Foreign Investment in Africa and the Dark-Side of the Moon for the Startup & Tech Hubs Financed from Overseas Africa is still very early in the retail transition to e-commerce, and there’s opportunity but also very real risk. Jumia Technologies is a low-margin, cash-burning e-commerce marketplace that has been making losses since…Continue Reading →
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Previous Work on Africa with the organization of visits of Business Delegation from Algeria, Senegal, Cameroon, Ghana, Nigeria and Egypt
December 6, 1994 – AFRICA – EGYPT
– Dr. Said El Mansour Cherkaoui as Co-Chair and Laurent Roffe as the Chair of the International Business Committee Organized the First Visit of the Federation of the Egyptian Chambers of Commerce to California – Business Meeting at the Golden Gate University where Dr. Said Cherkaoui has taught in various Schools and Departments for 16 years as Adjunct Associate Professor from 1987 to 2003 .. Read more
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