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Ashit Shah, KAM Automotive Sector Chair & Mutsimotor Director explains how a Kenyan manufactured ventilator works to Industry CS Ms Betty Maina (R). The PUMUAISHI 2.0, ventilators will be used by local hospitals to fight the covid-19 pandemic. www.theexchange.africa

If there is a gift that the world has given to Africa, it is the internet and with this, the unlimited ways in which to make life easier.

The internet and by extension the technology that comes with it, has helped in moving the continent towards creating solutions for day to day living instead of waiting for parachuted aid.

From getting farm produce to the marketplace to creating solutions that are ground-breaking in the health sector, the internet has enabled and propelled the hitherto jettisoned continent into spaces even the so-called developed countries wish to occupy.

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Looking at some of the amazing things that the tech space in Africa has created include the world-renowned M-Pesa which has transformed how people transact not only in Kenya but across the continent and globally in different ways and formats.

And as the world