Are Public-Private Partnerships a Panacea for Africa’s Digital Infrastructure Deficit?
The Panel, consisting of Sydney Domoraud, Managing Partner of Emire Partners, Christophe Dossarps, Chief Executive Officer of the Sustainable Infrastructure Fund (SIF) Source, and Jason Parker, Partner at Hunton Williams Kurth LLP, agreed that there were numerous complexities surrounding the use PPPs in digital infrastructure contracts. The major challenges discussed included the difficulty in pinpointing the public service or public asset that would be the subject matter of the PPP contract and the inherent difficulty in coupling a fast-evolving technology with a long term contract.