{"id":75048,"date":"2022-11-21T17:17:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:17:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nonstop-innovation-to-fuel-africas-digital-future"},"modified":"2022-11-21T17:42:17","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T17:42:17","slug":"nonstop-innovation-to-fuel-africas-digital-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/kenya\/all-news\/nonstop-innovation-to-fuel-africas-digital-future","title":{"rendered":"Nonstop innovation to fuel Africa’s digital future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Kenya. <\/strong><\/span>After two years of virtual gatherings, the prestigious annual AfricaCom event \u2013 Africa\u2019s largest technology conference \u2013 made its in-person return this year.<\/p>\n

Taking place at the Cape Town International Conference Centre (CTICC) from 7 to 11 November, the event brought together African operators, industry elites, and opinion leaders.<\/p>\n

As a leading industry player, Huawei had a big presence at the event.<\/p>\n

With the theme \u201cLighting up the Future,\u201d it shared insight on cutting-edge trends in the telecom industry, including 4G\/5G co-development, FMC intelligent connectivity, digital operations transformation, and green development leading the future of digital networks in Africa.<\/p>\n

During the conference\u2019s opening session, Huawei Sub-Saharan Africa Region president Leo Chen delivered a presentation entitled “Lighting up the Future with Nonstop Innovation”<\/p>\n

He outlined Huawei\u2019s latest ICT development concepts and successful digital transformation solutions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe high resilience and rapid growth of the continent\u2019s digital economy, technologies such as 5G, artificial intelligence, and cloud are evolving rapidly and the adoption of ICT in a wide range of industries is growing,\u201d said Chen.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are supporting Africa in advancing the technical revolution, boosting productivity and increasing jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n

He pointed out that over the last two decades, Africa has made significant progress in digitalisation.<\/p>\n

It has established the first-mile infrastructure, connecting countries on the continent to the global internet.<\/p>\n

Additionally, it has tripled its middle-mile internet infrastructures that expands the connection within and between countries.<\/p>\n

However, there are still challenges to be overcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cToday, we still need to improve the last-mile broadband infrastructure and bridge the digital divide between urban and rural areas,\u201d Chen said.<\/p>\n

Whilst there is appetite for a greater uptake of digital technologies, constraints including a skills deficit, and lack of viable technology solutions are impeding the advance of ICT adoption.<\/p>\n

Chen pointed out there are three major ways to break through these bottlenecks.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to further deepen connectivity to connect more people, enterprises, and scenarios;unleash digital productivity and enable digital transformation in multiple industries; increase the ICT industry\u2019s energy-efficiency and leverage ICT technologies to reduce emissions across all industries,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Of particular relevance to the African context were case studies around the digital transformation of the port and mining sectors in China, which have attracted wide attention from its African counterparts.<\/p>\n

These case studies provide a good example and reference for the potential of the development of the digital economy in Africa, as 90 per cent of Africa\u2019s imports and exports travels by sea, and mining is an important source of wealth creation for many African countries.<\/p>\n

As Africa’s digital ship sails into the future, it requires a strong tail wind to propel it forward.<\/p>\n

Chen called for more favourable industrial policies, and more cooperation between public and private sectors.<\/p>\n

To this end, Huawei has set up four innovation centres in Africa, launched several plans to support the development of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs).<\/p>\n

It will train 100,000 digital champions in Africa over the next three years.<\/p>\n

At AfricaCom, Huawei also showcased a range of innovative technologies and solutions, including the Very Large Scale Antenna Array (ELAA).<\/p>\n

Solutions such as Ultra-Wideband RRU, that effectively and cost effectively address some of the obstacles such as inconsistent spectrum resources, and insufficient fibreoptic network reach that are holding Africa back.<\/p>\n

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