We need to build out Afrika’s second-last mile cloud infrastructure

Afrika has been trending for a while as a hot ticket investment destination and as a continent, we have quite a bit going for us. We have a growing youthful population, a rising middle class, fast rate of urbanization and we relatively carry little baggage by way of established legacy technology systems. Afrika’s digital landscape presents a ripe opportunity for transformational products and services. However, to capitalize on this opportunity one needs stable, high availability platforms that can scale. Many technology entrepreneurs have gone on to make use of infrastructure (IaaS), backend (BaaS) and platform (PaaS) as a service from providers such as Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Alibaba Cloud, IBM BlueMix, Oracle Cloud among others that offer suites covering computing power, networking, databases, storage, analytics, management and deployment tools, developer kits et al, that can be mixed and matched to one’s solution delight.