NovoTech Africa · CI
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ReportA hundred electric taxis delivered in Dakar, a 1,000-vehicle programme financed by leasing, and millions of battery swaps at Spiro. In Africa, the electric car is arriving first through the people who drive all day.
AnalysisAfter three years of operations in Daloa, the Ivorian state has approved an eight-year public-private partnership with Zipline to cover 2,200 health facilities and 12 million people. An ambitious project, whose cost to the Treasury has yet to be published.
The eight-year contract is meant to deliver vaccines, blood and medicines by drone to about 12 million people, a third of the population.
Dossier-TekBanking, agriculture, customer service, local languages: AI is already at work in the continent’s companies. But between the announcements and the results, the gap remains wide. Figures, concrete examples and obstacles: our Dossier-Tek on what is really changing, and what is still holding things back.
Three days of work in Abidjan, 200 decision-makers, 77 artificial intelligence use cases selected for government, agriculture and health. The country wants to move from strategy to projects.