| "Africa has the potential to be an economic powerhouse, and I believe this to be true. The recent launch of Africa's first smartphone and the rapidly growing technology sector across the continent is a testament to this." Former Prime Minister of Haiti Laurent Lamothe speaking at MEDays |
| "Our continent is a wealth of innovation and youthful talent, but there is some work to be done to ensure our youth are equipped with access to the knowledge and tools they'll need to chart their own course in the 21st century digital economy." DreamOval Foundation's Frances Ahene-Affoh on growing digital literacy in Africa |
| "Irrespective of how big or small a business enterprise is, application of digital technology offers numerous benefits including those that facilitate the smooth running of business operations." Leveraging digital technology to boost MSMEs |
| "70% of consumers in South Africa do not have access to the digital economy, so we're never actually going to be able to grow from a numbers perspective unless we solve that data issue, where it becomes accessible to everybody, and that's what we're trying to do in terms of allowing access to our technology." Carl Jordan, senior business development manager at biNu |
| "The lack of connectivity hinders adoption because although cryptocurrencies themselves do not necessarily require an internet connection in principle, internet connectivity is essential to use crypto currencies for real-world retail transactions which require verification in real time." Bronwyn Williams on how data costs prevent African consumers utlilising the crypto economy |
| "Digital technology and human ingenuity combined will helps us forge a more equal and prosperous Africa. Africa is celebrated as the cradle of humankind - but it is also the future. We don't need to imagine Africa in 2025 because it is within our means to build the continent and the future of our dreams." Facebook Africa regional director Nunu Ntshingila on how Africa's changemakers are blazing a trail |
| "Although travelling into Africa still comes with certain risks, emerging technology trends can help companies and travellers overcome these challenges, with improved emergency monitoring, better location tracking and streamlined communications moving the continent forward." Oz Desai on how technology keeps business travellers safe in Africa |
| "The digital transformation can increase growth by nearly two percentage points per year and reduce poverty by nearly one percentage point per year in sub-Saharan Africa alone. This is a game-changer for Africa." Albert Zeufack, World Bank chief economist for Africa |
| "When you recognise these challenges and accept that there is a lack of scale amongst our start-ups it could be argued therefore that this digital transformation we speak about might be hyped. But the increased ownership of mobile phones and those that have access to it, is having a true impact." Nigerian scholar Adebayo Adedeji on the digital transformation in Africa |
| "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." Pablo Picasso |
| "The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time." Steve Wozniak |
| "You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine." Flip Wilson |
| "The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success." Paramahansa Yogananda |
| "What you do today can improve all your tomorrows." Ralph Marston |
| "Delete the negative; accentuate the positive!" Donna Karan |
| "The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity." Ayn Rand |
| "True success is overcoming the fear of being unsuccessful." Paul Sweeney |
| "The Web is functionally fantastic, but it's a tool. A terrific place to present information but not, at this stage, a tenably emotional location. (via Warc)" Kevin Roberts |
| "Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch." Tim Berners-Lee |
| "Make the iron hot by striking it." Oliver Cromwell |
| "Sometimes it pays to stay in bed on Monday, rather than spending the rest of the week debugging Monday's code." Dan Salomon |
| "Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true." Charles Dickens |
| "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in seeing with new eyes." Marcel Proust |
| "The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency." Bill Gates |
| "Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch." Fournier |
| "The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress." Joseph Joubert, Pensées, 1842. |
| "Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning." Bill Gates |
| "The greatest discovery of my generation is that man can alter his life simply by altering his state of mind." William James |
| "The new Web must allow me to learn by crossing boundaries. It has to help me reorganise the links in my own brain so I can understand those in another person's. It has to enable me to keep the frameworks I already have, and relate them to new ones. Meanwhile, we as people will have to get used to viewing as communication rather than argument the discussions and challenges that are a necessary part of this process." Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, 2000 |
| "Consistency is the last resort of the unimaginative." Oscar Wilde |
