Join the online event on April 23rd to learn how GSMA, representing the mobile industry worldwide, and GIZ jointly accelerate the digital Tunisian ecosystem. Commissioned by BMZ, the cooperation will support the local platform economy and make contributions in the areas of digital payment, gender equality, COVID-19 recovery and capacity building. To this end, GSMA will establish a Mobile Innovation Hub in the premises of the Digital Transformation Center Tunisia implemented by GIZ. 

In mid-January 2021, BMZ and KfW organised an online conference on “Remote Management, Monitoring and Verification (RMMV)”. More than 800 participants from all over the world explored the manifold opportunities to plan, manage, monitor and evaluate projects remotely - especially in fragile countries and in the context of COVID-19. All this is possible with cutting-edge hardware and software as provided, for instance, in the RMMV lab at KfW.

Through the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative’s (TUMI) Global Urban Mobility Challenge, the pedestrian infrastructure in Lagos was improved. Out of the challenge emerged an easy-to-use app which collects data to evaluate and improve existing infrastructure. Through the intervention, the TBS bus terminal, a school and a hospital are now connected by a sidewalk. Everyday, 4,000 pupils can now go to school more safely, and 7,000 people have improved access to the St. Nicholas Hospital.

“The hard work is far from over, but we are now better positioned for long-term success”, says Stephen Tashobya, founder and CEO of Ugandan-based social enterprise Wekebere. The start-up combines wearable devices with data analytics to predict pregnancy complications. This example illustrates well how Artificial Intelligence (AI) fosters new opportunities to create data-driven innovation that can tackle local problems. Wekebere is one of the 11 AI start-ups that GIZ and IBM supported through the Africa AI Accelerator in Ghana.  

The 2021 edition of Africa’s Development Dynamics Report explores how digitalisation can create quality jobs and contribute to achieving the African Union's Agenda 2063, thereby making African economies more resilient to the global recession triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2021 listed digital inequality, digital power concentration and cybersecurity failure among the most likely risks of the next ten years.