Our truth sheet collection, Digital infrastructure: implications for Africa’s setting, agriculture, and meals methods, goals to show the fabric realities of digitalisation, unpack the facility relations behind it, and help civil society, communities, and actions in navigating and responding to the environmental and socio-political impacts of Africa’s quickly increasing digital ecosystem.

Digital infrastructure in Africa: deconstructing the parable of dematerialisation and unveiling company energy

Africa’s digital revolution guarantees connectivity and progress, nevertheless it comes with excessive hidden prices. Beneath the floor lies a fancy net of resource-intensive infrastructure, environmental degradation, and company energy dynamics. From submarine cables and satellites to knowledge centres, digitalisation calls for huge quantities of power, water, land, and significant minerals, elevating pressing questions on sustainability, useful resource exploitation, and knowledge sovereignty. ​

Reality sheet 1 uncovers the fabric realities of Africa’s digital growth and encourages Africans to query its far-reaching impacts on the continent’s setting, agriculture, and meals methods. ​