Fourth Industrial Revolution

Companies benefit from the Fourth Industrial Revolution, but do countries?

Kibera residents walk past an M-Pesa banner at an open-air market in Kenya's capital Nairobi December 31, 2014. Safaricom, Kenya's biggest telecoms firm, is a model of how technology can be used to financially include millions of people with mobile telephones but without access to traditional infrastructure such as the banks that are available to the wealthy or those living in cities. Safaricom in 2007 pioneered its M-Pesa mobile money transfer technology, now used across Africa, Asia and Europe. It proved that money can be made from people who earn a few dollars a day. REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS SOCIETY SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY TELECOMS) - RTR4JQ1G

Fintech has revolutionized banking in Kenya, yet national competitiveness has fallen Image: REUTERS/Noor Khamis

Gary Coleman
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