Mark Zuckerman Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mark-zuckerman/ The low down on African affairs Thu, 24 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Mark Zuckerman Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/mark-zuckerman/ 32 32 France to plough almost a billion rand into African technology start ups https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/france-to-plough-almost-a-billion-rand-into-african-technology-start-ups/ Thu, 24 May 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/05/france-to-plough-almost-a-billion-rand-into-african-technology-start-ups/ Ensuring a good news item for Africa Day, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to plough nearly a billion rand into African technology start ups. He made the announcement to chief executives of the world biggest technology firms at the Technology For Good summit in Paris. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerburg was among those who spoke […]

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Ensuring a good news item for Africa Day, French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to plough nearly a billion rand into African technology start ups.

He made the announcement to chief executives of the world biggest technology firms at the Technology For Good summit in Paris.

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerburg was among those who spoke at the Technology for Good summit in Paris where French President Emmanuel Macron said his country had been too hesitant about supporting the burgeoning start ups from Africa.

He’s pushing other to join in backing Africa technology and artificial intelligence

He’s also spearheading efforts in Europe ton have digital companies pay tax at source and contribute to the societies in which they operate.

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