FutureCom Africa was established as the deployment and operating entity for projects developed by United Financial Services (UFS), a global financial services and business advisory group.
The primary focus of UFS is to be an investment entity for the financial facilitation of identified projects in partnership with local governments within Africa with a specific focus on the Energy, ICT and Agriculture sectors.
The engagement model is typically based on a Public-Private Partnership framework operationalised as depicted in the interface model below:
The FutureCom Africa team is driven by their passion for the digital society and the associated impact on the transformation of individuals, communities, governments and the world. The primary focus of this seasoned team of Telecoms and ICT professionals is the much needed digital transformation for the developing countries in Africa.
Embracing modern technology will enable Africa to leapfrog its legacy, establishing the continent as a globally competitive player and attracting the world to its doorstep.
The associated impact of the digital transformation will have a multiplier effect on the most common challenges faced by developing countries, i.e. health, education, infrastructure, transport, services, communication etc.
Access to communication and specifically broadband internet access is regarded as a key enabler in addressing the literacy challenge in developing countries. The late Kofi Annan, a former Secretary-General of the United Nations, was quoted in saying: “Literacy is a bridge from misery to hope”.
FutureCom Africa in Eswatini
The vision of the Kingdom of Eswatini is to attain first world status, and ICT infrastructure is seen as a key enabler to achieve this. The presence of ICT forms a golden thread through the priority themes of the strategic roadmap of Government. It is fully aligned with the key strategic priorities, among other things, Infrastructure, Investment & Innovation and Ease of Doing Business.
The ICT infrastructure that will lay the foundation of a broadband-enabled platform for the Kingdom of Eswatini to realise its vision of a Smart Country will be established through a PPP Agreement between the Government of Eswatini and United Financial Services and implemented through its deployment partner, FutureCom Africa.
The focus of the project will be to deploy the essential ICT Infrastructure to facilitate the migration to a Smart Country. This will include a fibre network that uses backbone fibre to connect major cities and metro fibre to enable the delivery of various broadband connectivity services for the Kingdom of Eswatini.
International connectivity to the country will be a vital component of the project, and the parallel development of international interconnections to South Africa and Mozambique by UFS will be actioned to bring the world to Eswatini via diverse global cable systems.
FutureCom Africa has established a local business entity, FutureCom Africa Eswatini, to manage its operations within the Kingdom.
