Africa

Tony Blair: Why Africa’s digital revolution will be powered by partnerships

A delegate checks a blackberry handset at an exhibition stand during the West & Central Africa Com conference in Nigeria's capital Abuja, June 18, 2009. Nigeria's mobile subscriber base is growing at around the fastest pace since the advent of GSM technology at the start of the decade, but average revenue per user is tailing off, industry analysts said on Wednesday.

Image: REUTERS/Afolabi Sotunde

Tony Blair
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1997-2007); Founder, Tony Blair Institute for Global Change
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