Moliehi Makumane on Looking at Technology in a Development Setting

In this episode, Moliehi Makumane takes us beyond a geopolitical framing of technology and strategic rivalry by unpacking South Africa’s digital priorities and the challenges of South-South technological cooperation.



In this episode of Between the Binary, host Elina Noor speaks with Moliehi Makumane, a researcher with the Security and Technology Programme at UNIDIR and a former cyber diplomat. Here, Moliehi prompts us to apply a broader lens to thinking about technology in a development setting by unpacking South Africa’s digital priorities, positioning amid powerful state and industry partners, indigenous innovations for the world (“create local, think global”), as well as the challenges of South-South technological cooperation.