About Xalam Digital Analytics
Xalam Digital Analytics is a boutique research and analytics firm focused on digital infrastructure and services markets in Africa and the Middle East. Initially formed as part of a partnership with Light Reading/Heavy Reading, a global technology information services firm, the firm is an independent part of the Light Reading Research Network.
Xalam Analytics leverages data analytics tools and investment research to help clients identify and act on digital transformation opportunities. The firm develops extensive data sets and market visualizations that underpin the analysis of the digital economy in Africa and the Middle East: “Foundational infrastructure” markets (broadband connectivity, backbones, data centers), digital services and applications (managed hosting & cloud services, video streaming, e-commerce, mobile money and emerging IoT models), all in key enterprise and consumer segments.
Xalam are driven by an unyielding belief in the power of data, combined with in-depth local market knowledge, quality, economics-based analysis and the leveraging of modern analytics tools to help clients make the best investment decisions.
About the Author
Guy Zibi is Founder and Managing Director with Xalam Analytics, a boutique Research and Data Analytics firm focused on digital infrastructure and services markets in Africa and Middle East (AME), and part of the Light Reading Research Network. Guy has more than a decade-long experience in researching and analyzing the business of technology around the world, and is recognized as a foremost expert in the economics of technology in the African market. He was previously Co-Founder AfricaNext Investment Research, an Africa-focused telecom equity research firm and a Global Consulting Director with Pyramid Research.
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