Tackling Africa’s digital divide

• DOI: 10.1038/s41566-018-0162-z
• Publication Date: 2018-04-20T09:31:42Z
• Authors: Martin P. J. Lavery; Mojtaba Mansour A...; Ralf Bauer; Gilberto Brambilla; Ling Cheng; Mitchell A. Cox; Angela Dudley; Andrew D. Ellis; Nicolas K. Fontaine; Anthony E. Kelly; Christoph Marquardt; Selaelo Matlhane; Bienvenu Ndagano; Francesco Petrucc...; Radan Slavík; Filippo Romanato; Carmelo Rosales-G...; Filippus S. Roux; Kobus Roux; Jian Wang; Andrew Forbes
• Keywords: QC350; Regional planning; 330; 0103 physical sciences; HT390395; Optics. Light; 01 natural sciences; 7. Clean energy

Innovations in ‘sustainable’ photonics technologies such as free-space optical links and solar-powered equipment provide developing countries with new cost-effective opportunities for deploying future-proof telecommunication networks.