While progress has been made in developing digital enterprises such as fintechs, Africa’s poor internet connectivity and cloud access challenges limit its ability to access new digital solutions.
This is according to Roc Bai, Vice President of Huawei Cloud Southern Africa, who addressed the ongoing Pan African Data Centres conference in Sandton, Johannesburg.
In his keynote talk, "AI: Enable the Future of a Digital Africa," Bai commended African firms' achievements in developing innovative fintech products but highlighted the hurdles they confront in increasing access to digital solutions. These challenges include internet service disruptions and difficulties with cloud access.
Bai presented proposals such as providing cloud infrastructure that will cover the entire continent, creating hybrid solutions that ensure reliable data localization, and developing a cloud industry tailored to unique industry needs.
During his presentation, Bai showcased the capabilities of Huawei's latest cloud stack offering, as well as GaussDB, Huawei's enterprise-grade distributed database that provides scalable high performance to meet the needs of African enterprises.
He also demonstrated Huawei AI capabilities using its Pangu AI models, which can deliver industry-specific solutions in mining, smart city management, and accurate weather forecasting.
“In the AI era, Huawei will continue to work with our customers and ecosystem partners to explore sustainable development. This will help customers grow their technological capacity and innovate to solve pressing challenges,” Bai said.
Huawei envisions itself playing a critical role in Africa, laying the groundwork for secure and dependable computing power in the intelligent computing age.
Bai concluded by saying that as African industries embrace AI, Huawei can ensure that smart green technologies are available to power the digital economy.
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