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)
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
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)