One Africa Digital summit to steer Africa’s transformation into single digital market

By Ibiyemi Mathew

One Africa Digital Summit, a summit to be held at the inaugural GITEX AFRICA conference is set to steer Africa’s transformation into a single digital market.

The one-day summit to be held on May 30, 2023 at Mamounia Hotel, Marrakech will spearhead a power-packed programme of mind-stretching conference content unifying government and private sector leaders, policy makers, investors and academics.

It is poised to be the world’s most influential and outcome-focused forum for dialogues, exchanges and collaborative intentions, accentuating the vast potential of the globe’s youngest continent and shaping the vision for a more connected, sustainable, inclusive, and tech-driven digital economy.

One Africa Digital Summit will raise the curtains and set the scene for the inaugural GITEX AFRICA, the continent’s largest all-inclusive tech event, connecting tech titans, governments, SMEs, start-ups, coders, investors, and academia, to accelerate, collaborate, and explore new ventures in the world’s next biggest digital economy.

The super-connector event will take place from 31 May-2 June 2023, launched in partnership with the Digital Development Agency (ADD), a strategic public entity leading the Moroccan government’s digital transformation agenda under the authority of the Moroccan Ministry of Digital Transition and Administration Reform.

Nigerian NewsDirect has also partnered with the organisers as one of the media partners for the inaugural event in Morocco.

Organiser KAOUN International expects impactful partnerships to be announced, from collaborations on digital infrastructure projects and capacity building initiatives, to agreeing on solutions to boost regional interconnection.

With more than 80 per cent of Africa’s population having mobile subscription, the digital economy is becoming one of the main drivers of cross-continental growth. This is coupled with strong talent development and a spike in public and private sector investments.

GITEX AFRICA is the first overseas venture for GITEX GLOBAL, the influential tech brand trusted by international tech executives, its record-breaking 42nd edition in October 2022 at the Dubai World Trade Centre attracting more than 170,000 attendees from 176 countries.