Jonathan Ledgard is founder of the new Rossums studio and director of a future Africa initiative at EPFL in Switzerland. He was a long-time Africa correspondent of The Economist. He leads the Redline group which seeks to build droneports and cargo drone lines in Africa. His second novel, Submergence, a New York Times book of the year, is presently being adapted for Hollywood by Wim Wenders.
The year 2016 will be a defining one for Africa in its approach to advanced technologies, particularly as these technologies begin to converge and offer even bigger opportunities for chan...
