This presentation illustrates how digital is transforming Africa, through figures and examples (health, education). It has been created for "Semaine du Web" event in Algiers. (www. semaineduweb.com)

1. HOW DIGITAL IS CHANGING AFRICA ?
AFRICA & DIGITAL
@NaguibToihiri #SDW2013
@WebmarketingCOM

2. CONTINENT HELPLESS
OR
NEW ECONOMIC GIANT?

3. AFRICA, BUT WHICH AFRICA?
 More than 1 billion people
 Area > USA + China
+ Europe + India
 1000 languages
 54 countries

4. AFRICA IS DIGITALIZING…
167 million Internet users (Internet World Stats, 2012)
50% of the population access to Internet during a month

5. …BUT IS LATE
13.5% of Africans have access to Internet (Internet World Stats, 2012)
African represent only 10% of worldwide Internet users

6. DIGITAL IMPACTED POLITICS
USHAHIDI is a website that allowed geotag violence following the 2007
presidential elections in Kenya

7. DIGITAL IMPACTED POLITICS
Importance of social networks in mobilizing protesters during
the Arab revolutions of 2011

8. DIGITAL IMPACTED ECONOMY
The ICT sector represents 5% of the overall GDP of most African countries
10% increase in mobile penetration leads to a 1.2% growth of GDP of an African country

9. AFRICA IS SOCIALIZING
Most visited websites in this countries sites are : Facebook, Twitter and YouTube
Social networks represent 1/5 of the time spent on Internet

10. AFRICA IS SOCIALIZING
MOST CONNECTED COUNTRIES
ON FACEBOOK
Seychelles : 28%
Tunisia : 28%
Mauritius : 24%
SocialBakers, 2012

11. EGYPT IS
THE 1ST COUNTRY ON
FACEBOOK USERS

12. SOUTH AFRICA
WAS THE 1ST COUNTRY
ON TWEETS NUMBER

13. AFRICA IS MOBILIZING
90% of phones in Africa are mobile
735 million mobile subscribers (end of 2012)
Africa is the first continent in terms of "m-payment"
(Informa Telecoms & Media, 2012)

14. AFRICA IS MOBILIZING

15. THERE IS A DIGITAL GAP
BETWEEN COUNTRIES

16. AFRICA IS INNOVATING
Elikia is the first smartphone
developed in Africa
For sale since 2012 in Congo for 130 €

17. AFRICA IS ADAPTING
iCow informs farmers about gestation periods, feeding and milking of their cows

18. AFRICA STILL HAS CHALLENGES
Women are 25% less than men to have access to Internet
(Intel "Women & Web Report, 2012)

19. @NaguibToihiri #SDW2013
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