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John Bosco Kalisa

Oct 9, 2026

10:29
So it has the components, a number of good components.
10:34
How do we really move away from carbon emission to carbon neutral programs while we need 100 billion US dollars annually in terms of funding the critical infrastructure, which is the energy, transport, ICT, and harnessing our water bodies.
10:53
So those programs are well crafted, but the implementation and mobilization of the required resources has been one of the challenges.
11:02
So I think we need to really leverage our continental aspirations, continental agendas, including the African Continental Free Trade Area, the African Want Agenda, the Program for Industrialization Agenda.
11:17
So the documents are well crafted, well designed, but how do we implement? How do we...
11:24
How do we catalyze private sector resources? How do we develop a framework around public-private partnership so that we invest in those critical infrastructures that are critical for empowering our new industries? Again, the type of industries we are talking about should move away from the They're heavy and they're so reliant on fossil fuel industries.
11:56
What we call industries without smoke stars.

5 MINS LATER

17:27
Well, given your trail of thought, not a few person would want to know what it would take for Africa to move from being a supplier of just raw materials to being a producer of digital service powered by its own energy.
7:35
So what concrete reforms are needed to make cross-border digital payments faster, cheaper, and more reliable for traders and consumers across the East African sub-region?
7:46
Indeed, there, there, there are a number of reforms that are very critical, uh, and they are paramount for a single digital market to, um, uh, to operate, uh, thrive, and flourish.
7:58
One, of course, we need digital infrastructure connectivity across, across the region.
8:04
Uh, the, the infrastructure is paramount.
8:06
Digital infrastructure is paramount.
8:08
Uh, you need a high, uh, high-speed internet ac-across the region.
8:15
And again, we cannot afford as a region, uh, to operate, uh, in a frag- in a fragmented manner.

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36:00
Looking ahead, what should success look like over the next five to 10 years, and which milestone should signal that East Africa is truly becoming one digital market?

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