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The Most Tech-Friendly Governments In Africa

The Most Tech-Friendly Governments In Africa

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

We know that Africa is a great, big continent filled with abundant resources, great people and the rest of that gist. We also know that African governments, through the eyes of the tech ecosystem – if you will, can be a bit obtuse at times. Here’s an entire article on that.

However, what isn’t talked about most of the time are those governments that are doing some things right. So, we did what literally anyone would do: we took a look across the continent and tried to identify governments who have done (or are doing) good stuff in their respective ecosystems and strengthening the spirit of innovation.

From Techcabal. Story by  Akindare Okunola.

Numbers

54: The number of countries in Africa.

442: The number of tech hubs in Africa, according to the GSMA Ecosystem Accelerator.

560: The amount of money African startups raised (in million dollars) in 2017 according to this Partech Ventures funding report.

71: Percentage of African startups generation revenue, according to VC4Africa (paywall).

1.2: The number of people (in billions) in Africa.

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