Panel: Financing Africa’s Digital Revolution with Modern Investment Strategies

Africa’s most enduring challenge: where is the money required to fund a digital revolution coming from? It’s a complex issue shaping every tech ecosystem and comprising myriad related topics - model strategy, public-private partnership, rights & ownership, and international relations.

This panel explores what’s being spent across African tech in some of the continent’s biggest investment projects, and how success increasingly demands more bespoke, collaborative investment models.

• Priorities: Current status of financing in critical sectors: infrastructure, energy, education & the start-up ecosystem - and what they mean for SME and private sector development
• The long game: Africa needs investment strategies tailored to its myriad geographical, political, cultural and business ecosystems, the most successful of which centre on long-term investment