How Africa can harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution

Posted on August 20, 2020 / Posted by ACM
How Africa can harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution


How Africa can harness the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The One Laptop per Child program provides computer access to schoolkids at Kagugu Primary School, Kigali, Rwanda. (Wikimedia Commons)

Key features of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) — accelerating digitalization, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, robotics, and 3-D printing — have obvious and important implications for education, employment, and the future of work. This is especially true for African countries. Over the past decade, the share of the continent’s under-20 population has expanded by more than…



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