The first half of 2020 brought drastic changes to the manner of conducting everyday business. The global pandemic challenged national governments to build a new normal for their countries, technology being the main tool for achieving this endeavor.
As the whole world is forced into lockdown, this drastic change in the digital landscape is expected to be the new normal. In the local context, the recent Digital 2020 April Statshot report of Hootsuite and We Are Social showed that the number of mobile connections stood at 159-percent, while 73 million people, or more than half of the country’s population, were connected to the Internet in January 2020 alone.
