Satellite Internet, dollar crisis & Worldcoin

Techpoint Africa Podcast

This episode is also available on YouTube - https://youtu.be/zCbjp253CY8

Today on the Techpoint Africa Podcast, our reporters discuss the recent developments in the African connectivity, financial and crypto space.

The stories:

• Vodacom to use Amazon's Project Kuiiper to power connectivity project in Africa's remote areas
• AltSchool expands its reach in a bid to provide jobs for 10,000,000 African youth
• Acting CBN Governor assures foreign investors that FX backlog will be paid in 1-2 weeks
• Worldcoin token owners are losing money

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Timestamps

00:00 - Intro

00:44 - AltSchool is our headline sponsor!!

02:11 - Amazon's Satellite Internet

07:15 - AltSchool Africa's new schools

14:03 - Nigeria's FX backlog

20:29 - Worldcoin token owners are losing money

Useful links

• Amazon's answer to Starlink to provide 5G in remote Africa
• Beyond tech, AltSchool Africa wants to empower the next wave of creative economy and business talent
• Investors on high alert as CBN prepares to clear FX backlog in “1 to 2 weeks”
• Less than 2 months after launch, 98.5% of Worldcoin token investors already at a loss
• Alex Okosi is Google in Africa's MD
• Kenya partners Spiro to deploy electric bikes

This episode was produced by Ogheneruemu Oneyibo and Gracious Sede

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Music - Beach by MBB - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEnQ8dHwDSk