Pan-Africanism, Emerging Technologies, and Sustainable Development

Abstract

This chapter examines an array of emerging technologies that serve facilitative roles in contributing to African continental sustainable development and ultimately toward sustainable unification. Among the case studies to be examined are South Africa's Center for High Performance Computing in Cape Town, which for the first time put Africa in the Top 500 Supercomputer list, and the African Association for Remote Sensing of the Environment (AARSE) whose membership now includes multiple African countries that have their own telecommunications and earth observing satellites in orbit. Other case studies identified are the NATO Science for Peace funded Mediterranean Dialogue Earth Observatory for Early Warning of Biogenic & Anthropogenic Disasters and Epidemics based in Morocco, as well as the Great Green Wall Project along the Sahara and the emergence of large-scale solar farms.