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The next bottleneck for African digital identity is infrastructure, not software

biometricupdate.com · 4dShare

Africa’s next wave of digital identity investment may have surprisingly little to do with biometrics, wallets or credentials. In early September, WIOCC Group secured $300 million from Africa Finance Corporation and Vision Invest to expand data centers, terrestrial fiber and subsea infrastructure across Africa. Days later, U.S. technology company Cybastion committed $75 million to digital infrastructure in Cameroon, including an AI-ready data center in Douala alongside a dedicated power plant. WIOCC has also been building data-center and connectivity infrastructure in markets including Nigeria. The projects are different, but together they point toward a broader shift. Private capital is moving deeper into the physical infrastructure on which governments, enterprises and eventually sovereign digital identity systems depend. Why are investors putting hundreds of millions of dollars into this infrastructure? Why are data centers, fiber and power increasingly appearing in the same investme

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