ABSTRACT
A number of creative Big Data (BD)- and cloud-based apps have been developed that are unique to Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) economies. This chapter describes BD and cloud deployments in traditional versus modern sectors. It explains key driving factors of BD and cloud industry and market. There are major constraints facing the BD and cloud industry and market in SSA economies, which are related to a low degree of digitization, the lack of infrastructures and bandwidth, unaffordable prices, narrow local cloud offerings, and unfavorable regulatory/human development issues. For instance, being able to accurately count the number of children is the first step towards realizing the benefit of BD and the cloud in health care. Factors such as low quality, the high cost of last-mile connections, the remoteness of many areas, and the unavailability of high-speed Internet pose opportunities and challenges to BD and cloud providers.
