“New Technology Is Key To African Prosperity” -Mteto Nyati, Director of IBM South Africa’s Global Services
Via VOA:
A top executive with one of Africa’s leading communications firms says Africa won’t make big strides forward in development unless it bridges what he calls the “digital divide” between the continent and the First World. Mteto Nyati, a former Fellow at Yale University in the United States, is the director of IBM South Africa’s Global Services Division in Johannesburg. As part of what he considers corporate responsibility, Nyati’s dedicated to ensuring that as many Africans as possible have access to computers and learn how to use them.
Credit Darren Taylor, Washington. Read full text.
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