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Why Africa must forge its digital transformation path
African nations must forge their own unique path in digital transformation, learning from but not blindly copying Western approaches that may be ill-suited for local contexts.
The UK government's recently published "Invest 2035: the UK's Modern Industrial Strategy" white paper reveals a concerning lack of understanding about modern digital industrial transformation, focusing on traditional industrial approaches rather than the digital infrastructure necessary for 21st-century economic development.
The 96-page document largely ignores four of the five key tenets of industrial digitalisation (with only AI receiving significant attention), fails to outline a concrete strategy, and demonstrates a striking similarity to policies from the 1990s Blair government era, indicating the UK risks falling further behind global competitors in digital industrial development.
