technology in africa is suffering from a lack of investment that's according to the african development bank the bank estimates just 2 and a half percent of infrastructure disinvest women in africa go to information and communication technology but sierra leone is breaking the mold and working towards being a smart country the government claims that blocks chain and cloud computing allow sierra leone to push texas terms and make essential services affordable the country's efforts are being helped by a team of trained at estonia's governance cademy now estonia of course being the smart city of europe so what's. bishan there for more let's cross over now to our africa desk in bonn to abu bakar giallo good to have you with us tell me sierra leone has big ambitions to become a leader in advanced technology was this ambition coming from if you actually coming from the president himself julius mother be your right from the beginning he had 2 major ambition 1st of all is to use technology and transform the economy and also to use technology and developing human capital and of course that does come from the