Wednesday, September 25

Strive Masiyiwa And James Manyika Two Zimbabwean Millionares Pioneers In Technology And Artificial Intelligence

Two of Zimbabwe’s bright minds and pioneers in technology met to talk about Artificial Intelligence and what it means to the world.

 

 

 

 

Strive Masiyiwa started Zimbabwe’s biggest mobile phone company, Econet, and he now owns many tech companies.

 

 

 

 

James Manyika is the first Senior Vice President of Technology and Society at Google, reporting directly to Google CEO Sundar Pichai.

 

 

 

 

Strive talks about how the mobile revolution changed the communication reality in Zimbabwe where the waiting time for a landline phone was 14 years.

 

 

 

 

Strive said that Singapore gets more direct investment from outside than the whole African continent gets.

 

 

 

 

He said that Africans in the diaspora send more money to Africa than Africa gets in direct investment.

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