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Africa's plugging the technology gap with help from India

Investment in information technology can help Africa to improve governance, overcome poverty and deal with critical infrastructure gaps, taking India as an example, the co-chair of the World Economic Forum on Africa 2010 (WEF) said.

27 May 2010

"There is no need to reinvent the wheel," Ajai Chowdhry, also chairman and chief executive officer of HCL Infosystems in India, told IRIN on the sidelines of a recent WEF conference in Tanzania. "India and Africa have similar problems so we can apply similar solutions.

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