Explore Challenges
- 16 May: Keeping pace with a digital revolution
- Global health in the 21st Century
- Adapting to an urban future
- Educating for tomorrow
- Digital technology in Africa
- Persistent poverty in Britain
- Can the UK ever be sustainable?
- Plastic pollution in the oceans
- Natural disasters: how can we improve?
- Not In My Back Yard
- Digital Divide in the UK?
- Importing goods, exporting drought?
- Britain’s ageing population
- Engineering our climate
- The future shape of Capitalism
- Migration: skills and the job market
- Razing the Rainforest
- London under water
- Concreting the countryside
- Future of low carbon energy.
- Africa in the 21st Century
Cell Phones
Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
"Through necessity, Africans are adapting and developing new technology in inventive and intuitive ways"
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Lord Paul Boateng Former High Commissioner to South Africa
Panel biographies
Our panel - Nicholas Negroponte, Erik Hersman, Herman Chinery-Hesse and Rory Cellan-Jones
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Panel biographies
Audience questions 1-5
creative future for Africa, govn. contracts and the Arab Spring
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Audience questions 1-5
Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones
Introduction to the issue of digital technology in Africa by our chair
Digital technology in Africa / Focus / Introduction by Rory Cellan-Jones