IoT consist of a complex ecosystem and will be delivered through partnership and collaboration – African perspective.
When it comes to adopting
technologies, Africa is often a unique market for obvious reasons i.e. lack of
infrastructure and diverse economies. Our uniqueness can make Africa an
implementation frontier. However Africa’s
regional diversity requires different approaches to implementing IoT Solution. The localisation of global use cases will be
key to implementation in sectors like agriculture. Health care and logistics.
Firstly lets us unpack IoT
The discussions around IoT
continue to dominate in all government and business platforms. The prospect of a myriad of interconnected
devices inspires both hope and fear. For
business, IoT promises to deliver operational efficiencies and enabling faster
decision making. Business leaders are also
tackling the fears around skills and loss of jobs. In the midst of that, many people still
regard IoT as one technology solution.
IoT consist of a complex ecosystem with industry specific implications. It involves combining and integrating a range
of components to provide an end to end solution, which means its highly
unlikely that one single player will control an entire eco system. The ecosystem requires partnership to deliver
solution that has business or societal value
Back to Africa
IoT will bring new opportunities
to Africa to solve its many problems but also to develop new applications that
might contribute to the world at large. Unlike the previous technological
revolutions where we in the developing world woke up too late to be leaders in
the technology, today, thanks to the Internet, we can learn about the evolution
of IoT at the same time as others in the developed world and aspire to be
leaders and not just followers in the field.
According to Bekele, We cannot only
“enjoy” finished technologies as we used to do in the past but shape the new
technology by participating in its development and its standardization.
That on its own requires
partnership and collaboration among all stakeholders.
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