Node.js and Africa MarketOGATCHA Finagnon Prudence, Pliby.com

Africa’s tech Market

Africa’s Tech Market / North Africa

North of Africa/

Egypt’s tech market.

Africa’s Tech Market / North Africa

Egypt’s tech ecosystem is a very vibrant startup hub with

• 33,300,000 internet users,

• 37% internet penetration and

• 93,670,000 mobile phone users.

Egypt’s tech startups funding landscape was $4.8million in 2015 with a potential expectation of $446 million in 2016.

Africa’s Tech Market / East Africa

East of Africa/

Kenya’s tech market.

Africa’s Tech Market / East Africa

A.k.a. Silicon Savannah, Kenya has

• 26 tech hubs and incubators,

• 31,985,048 internet users,

• 69.6% internet penetration.

In 2015, Kenya’s tech startups funding landscape was $47.4 million.

Nairobi’s tech scene could be worth as much as $1 billion by 2019 according to Bloomberg report.

Africa’s Tech Market / South of Africa

South of Africa/

South Africa’s tech market.

Africa’s Tech Market / South of Africa

In South Africa. we numbered

• 51 tech hub and incubators,

• 26,841,126 internet users,

• 49% internet penetration

and the tech startups funding landscape in 2015 was $54.6 million.

Africa’s Tech Market / West of Africa

West of Africa/

Nigeria’s tech market.

Africa’s Tech Market / West of Africa

Nigeria has

• 92,699,924 internet users,

• 51,1% internet penetration,

• 167,371,945 (in 2014) mobile phone users,

• 23 tech hubs/incubators.

Nigeria’s tech startup funding landscape in 2015 was $49.4 millions.

Africa’s Tech Market /

Africa’s tech market

• 333+ millions internet users,

• 450+ million mobile phone users,

• 125 tech hubs/incubators.

Africa’s Tech Market /

If you think large scale or global market, you might care about

Africa market.

Node.js for Africa?

How useful Node.js could be for Africa market?

Node.js for Africa?

Cyber Café• 256/512kbps internet

bandwidth shared with

• 10 minimum desktop

computers. Those machines were configured with

• 256/512mb Ram,

• win XP/win Vista/win7, • internet explorer 6/7/8.

Node.js for Africa?

Performance is key for all web service to success.

Node.js for Africa?

… effective web service for Africa market must remain lightweight and efficient, fast and non-blocking,

cheap and cheap.

Node.js for Africa?

While Africa’s internet capacity may be growing very quickly, it remains slow when compared to other countries in the developing world.

The fastest internet in Africa is in Ghana, West Africa, with 9.80 Mbps speed in downloads. (Report 2015 from Akamai)

Node.js for Africa?

FAST CODE vs

SLOW INTERNET

Up! Up! For Africa

Dev Community

What the Dev Community in Africa knows about Node.js?

Opportunities & Challenges

Challenges

Opportunities & Challenges

Opportunities

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