UPCOMING EVENTS
Theme: Market Reforms and Policy Diffusion: A Comparative Analysis of Africa and Southeast Asia
Overview
By most accounts, over the past six decades, Asia has outperformed other regions of the world in terms of economic growth and industrial diversification. In particular, the impressive economic performance of East Asian countries like China, Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, and the Philippines continues to elicit debate in development policy circles on distilling and transferring the lessons from the region to other developing countries.
Theme: Africa’s Unicorns and Startup Ecosystem in the Era of Artificial Intelligence
Overview
Africa remains home to a dynamic and growing digital ecosystem, with unprecedented growth in tech innovation, influx of international capital, and multiple large fundraises and exits in the last decade. By the same token, across the world, artificial intelligence (AI) is fundamentally altering the way people live and conduct business. Given agelong skills shortages on the continent, the data governance imperative has never been more important, especially given the nuanced and dynamic nature of the ongoing AI revolution.
