Meta, which is stalling in developed countries, is finding a new world in Africa



Meta, which has

suggested a complete withdrawal from Europe over the handling of personal information as the number of users of Facebook, the main SNS, has started to decline , has increased investment in Africa in recent years. In the background, the Guardian, a major British general newspaper, reported that it intends to quickly expand its power in the rapidly growing African countries.

Facebook's fiber optics in Nigerian state put Africa pivot in focus | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/18/facebook-meta-mainone-fibre-optics-internet-access-nigeria-edo

Meta (formerly Facebook) is focusing on improving the network infrastructure, such as announcing the world's largest submarine cable laying plan that will provide the Internet throughout Africa in 2020.

Facebook announces the world's largest submarine cable laying design '2 Africa' that provides the Internet throughout Africa-GIGAZINE



One of these trends is Meta's collaboration with MainOne, a company laying fiber optics in West Africa, to install a 400km fiber optic cable in Edo, Nigeria in 2019. Emmanuel Magnus Eweka, who worked as a senior official in the Ed state government until 2020, told The Guardian: 'Meta, which was Facebook at the time, is clearly not a digital infrastructure company, but the state government and MainOne cable. He invested in the floor design drawing. '

Nigeria boasts a population of 200 million and the highest GDP in Africa, but internet penetration is still low and prices remain high. However, with the spread of smartphones, the Internet usage rate in the country has exceeded half of the population and is steadily increasing, so companies aiming to acquire potential users are going to businesses that support the spread of the Internet in Nigeria. It is aiming to enter the market through investment.

The Edo state government is working with Meta, Microsoft and others to bring administrative services and school education online, and in 2020, the Edo Tech Park project will bring together IT companies on 200,000 square kilometers of land to form an ecosystem. Announced. The state's Governor Godwin Obaseki's agenda for digitizing civilian life is dominated by giant IT companies in developed countries.



A Meta spokeswoman commented on the outcome of the partnership with the Ed government: 'We are driving innovation in terms of both performance and efficiency, and in collaboration with MainOne we are providing online training to 2000 Ed teachers. We were able to bring the four schools and their surrounding communities online. '

On the other hand, there are some cautious opinions in the field about these movements that look like philanthropy. 'These support provided by IT companies like them looks very altruistic, but by no means,' said Gbemisola Alonge, an analyst at Stears, a Lagos-based economic analysis firm in Nigeria. There is no such thing. This is to expand our reach and increase the number of users. '

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