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IOG is in the final stages of a government contract in Ethiopia to bring several million users onto the Cardano blockchain.
The company behind Cardano is working with 5 “focus countries” in Africa and will onboard 100 million users within the next year or two.
In the past, Charles Hoskinson, inventor of Cardano, has been vocal about the huge potential of the African continent for the adaptation of blockchain technology. He has repeatedly indicated that his company IOG (formerly IOHK) has numerous projects for Africa in the pipeline.
But the fact that the projects are so big, as John O’Connor, Director of African Operations at IOG, revealed in an interview yesterday, may have surprised even longtime members of the Cardano community. What O’Connor announced yesterday does indeed promise mainstream blockchain adoption in Africa.