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Keeping the poor at the center of digital innovation
Original coverage by EWTN News ·
Coverage overview
EWTN News reports on the first Africa Digital Assets Summit at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa in Nairobi. Its coverage pairs the organizers’ account of the gathering with Archbishop Bert van Megen’s warning that people without access to digital systems can be left out of economic life.
Excerpt from EWTN News
The inaugural Africa Digital Assets Summit concluded in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 30 with organizers declaring it a “resounding success,” even as the event’s keynote speaker issued a stark warning: Rapid advances in digital systems risk making the continent’s poorest citizens “invisible.”
The summitʼs organizers said their purpose was to bring “together investors, regulators, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate Africa’s digital economy — from policy to prosperity.”
ACI Africa, the sister service of EWTN News in Africa, first reported on the summit in February and said Kenya was preparing to host the summit at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) under the theme “Ethical Stewardship for the Love of the Poor” with the aim of examining “how digital innovation can serve humanity.”