Both innovation and new technologies, have an important role to built tomorrows´Africa by overcoming traditional infrastructural constraints (communications but also transport constraints) and reducing business costs.

1. Africa Forum, Paris 5 June, 2009 “ Innovation and ICTs to build tomorrow’s Africa” Laura Recuero Virto Economist OECD Development Centre

5. Demographic bank branches Demographic cash machines Mobile phones Innovation Mobile payments for migrants The key success of mobile payments is the size of their distribution networks % Source : Wireless Intelligence (2008), Beck, Demirguc-Kunt and Martinez Peria (2005) Size of distribution networks

8. Innovation E-trade: Sub-Saharan Africa can benefit the most Sub-Saharan Africa is currently the worse in terms of cost and time in trade activities Import and exports Source: World Bank 2009

10. Investment Innovation in ICTs enables to reach the poor Africa’s Exponential Growth in Mobile Telephony Source : OECD Development Centre, based on Wireless Intelligence, 2009. Africa is the fastest growing mobile market in the world  Today, 4 out of 10 Africans have a mobile phone line; by 2012 they will 6 out of 10 Source : Wireless Intelligence (www. wirelessintelligence.com), 08, African Economic Outlook 2009

11. Innovation Reaching the poor through new business models Trickling down the Global Income Pyramid Postpaid 1.3 billion people with US$1/day 1.4 billion people with US$2/day 1.5 billion people with US$4-40/day 0.8 billion >US$40/day 2 billion mobile users in 2005 3 billion mobile users in 2007 4 billion mobile users in 2008 1.3 billion people with US$4/day Microfinance Prepaid Micropaid Phone Sharing By 2012, there will be 6,1 billion mobile subscribers reaching ever lower income populations Source: New Growth Markets, Nokia Siemens Networks, 2008, Wireless Intelligence, 2009 6.1 billion mobile users in 2012

12. Innovation Africa pioneer in networks without boundaries Source : African Economic Outlook 2009 Africa is the first continent in the world to implement a service where any user in a foreign country to receive and send calls and messages at local rates Zain MTN Safaricom - Vodacom - MTN Forthcoming Networks without boundaries

14. Investment Connecting Africa to the world in 2009-10 Source : World Bank Group 2008, www.manypossibilities.net (Steven Song), African Economic Outlook 2009 SAT3 THE MISSING LINK As of March 2009 How to further reach the poor

15. Investment Connecting Africa to the world in 2009-10 Source : World Bank Group 2008, www.manypossibilities.net (Steven Song), African Economic Outlook 2009 MULTIPLE SOLUTIONS AT LEAST ONE LINK How to further reach the poor  Wholesale prices will start decreasing between 4 to 10 times from June 2009!

16. Investment Connecting Africa to the world in 2009-10 Business climate has room for improvement While it is legitimate to raise taxes through mobile phone revenues in countries with on average 70 % of informal labour force, private investment has not to be neglected for this strategy to be sustainable Contribution of taxation on mobile operators (% of government revenues) Perceived ICT regulatory environment Source: Esselaar, S., Gillwald, A. and C. Stork (2007), “Towards an Africa e-Index: Telecommunications Sector Performance in 16 African Countries,” Research ICT Africa, GSM World, 2006, “Taxation and Growth of Mobile Services in Sub-Saharan Africa”.

17. Investment Connecting Africa to the world in 2009-10 Will Africa ever be connected to Internet? Urgent need to attract private investment and knowhow to fixed-line operators if Africa is to be connected to high speed internet  many fixed-line operators are close to bankruptcy in Sub-Saharan Africa! In Africa, there are extremely few fixed lines.. % Source: International Telecommunications Union 2009, African Economic Outlook 2009