Basic infrastructure, such as proper roads and electricity, are required to make these technologies work.
Smartphones and Facebook may be ubiquitous, but the continent still lags behind in other basic infrastructure, such as reliable power.
"These epidemics happen when displaced persons are tightly packed together and often lacking basic infrastructure, such as clean water and safe sewage disposal," said Dick Thompson, a World Health Organization spokesman.
With the existing funding fraction, Kumar says the project will build basic infrastructure such as roads, water pipelines, sewage lines and waste collection.
Using data on 18 sub-Saharan African countries, the authors find a negative relationship between ethnic inequality and the provision of basic infrastructure such as electricity and sewerage.
Vast swathes of the capital's most densely populated neighbourhoods are illegal – some resemble slums, others are as well built as officially permitted developments – but the government has put in basic infrastructure such as water, electricity, sewage facilities and schools, in tacit acceptance of the areas.
BBA told the Guardian that of the 500 villages, 100 have so far been converted to child friendly villages leading to 3,650 children being enrolled in school, several new schools constructed and existing schools improved with basic infrastructure such as clean drinking water, mid-day meals and toilets.
Not all of the proposed dollars are for basic infrastructure such as roads and bridges.
One big challenge from an engineering perspective is constructing basic infrastructure, such as credit scoring, KYC and assessment.
Beijing would like to repair that disparity, and therefore promotes investments in basic infrastructure, such as oil, gas and telecommunications networks as the answer.
