Global Outlook
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Africa claims six of the ten fastest-growing economies and a third of 1.1 billion people are middle class, yet more people have phones than electricity. Mobile becomes infrastructure: M-Pesa mobile money handles the bulk of transactions in East Africa, pay-as-you-go data emerges from South Africa, basic phones like the Nokia 105 (35-day battery, radio, torch) enable services, and surprising exports include ATM and cloud software from Cape Town. Concrete breakwater blocks (“Alice”) and the SKA telescope show hardware and science scaled locally.
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