Posts by Alastair Tempest

Why Motorbike Apps Are Scrambling For Africa: Traffic jams are the great waster of time across Africa. Young men with no jobs got the motorbike taxi industry going – and now…

With a young population and growing GDP, China is showing strong growth in ecommerce, adding 76 million new online shoppers in 2018. However, as the Ecommerce Report: China 2019 shows, limitations in…

Zimbabwe continues to get in the news for all the wrong reasons. On 28 September the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe banned the quoting of prices in foreign currency. It then…

We all recall President Ramaphosa’s SONA presentation, in which he set out the vision of a new smart city in SA. He is not the only President with such a…

While I was preparing for the CCMG conference I came across a 2019 report by Dimension Date. According to the research,  33% of respondents agree that good customer experience will…

I took part in a panel at the annual CCMG conference, entitled “E-Tailing and its effect on the future of retail” with Bradley Elliot of Platinum Seed and Tarryn Kay…

In April, I reported that UNCTAD had set up an “eTrade for Women” programme. Our Board member, Mpho Sekwele, then started a monthly series of interviews of women in ecommerce…

In the report of the Economic Commission for Africa at the WTO Public Forum, above, readers will have noted that manufacturing in Africa as a whole has reduced over that…

Mauritius is the highest-ranked sub-Saharan African economy overall followed by Rwanda, Kenya and South Africa respectively. Regulatory reforms in Togo and Nigeria have elevated those economies to be among the…

I attended this AU meeting from 15-17 Oct in Dakar. The 1st Ecommerce conference had been held in Nairobi in July last year. The aim of the meeting was to collect…