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Hassanein, Patrick. Hassanein,
to you first.

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What is Axian doing in achieving
its sustainability goals and how

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much of a role will
sustainability play in your

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future?

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Axian is a Pan-African player in
infrastructure and services.

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We're active in
telecommunication, financial

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services, and energy. In terms
of energy transition and climate

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action,

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we're very much active in
bringing clean energy to either

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governments, B2B, and mass
market.

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In governments, we're providing
solar parts, solar farm to the

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national grids.

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In B2B, we're providing CNI
solutions and in mass market

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we're building micro grids in
Africa in small remote villages.

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One thing that's very important
for us at Axian is that we walk

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the talk.

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We're not just here to come and
say, wow, here's the concept,

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here are the ideas.

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Let's make sure that we're
acting, that we're making,

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putting into action all those
big nice discussion.

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We need today's time to
accelerate.

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It's our time to make sure that
we're taking the right steps to

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invest in the proper technology.

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We measure every year an impact
index where the impact index is

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making sure that all of our
companies, we've got 48

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companies in the group, that
we're making sure that all the

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companies are acting towards
climate action and energy

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transition.

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Patrick, you spoke about their
technology.

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How much of a role does that
have to play?

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What are some of the most
exciting innovations that you're

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seeing at the moment?

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Yeah, we believe that the
climate transition will be

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digital, will be green, and will
have to be inclusive.

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I think Axian is a good
illustration of that.

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They are digital by, I would
say, origin.

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They were a telecom company.

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They moved into green and they
are actually providing services

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to the poorest on the continent.

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This is exactly what Africa is
needing: energy access to

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everyone.

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We see a lot of innovation on
the clean energy side.

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We see also a lot of innovation
on the AI side.

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How do you use data and AI to
actually deliver climate

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solutions on climate adaptation
models, for example, on

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agriculture and other sectors?

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So yes, technology will be
central to the climate

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transition in Africa.

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How specifically are you doing
that?

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How are you harnessing
technology at Axian?

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I'm going to take a few
examples.

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It's going to be very simple.

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In Africa, we need energy.

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Let's be honest, our customer,
they're not thinking about

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having it green or not green.

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First of all, they need to have
access to this energy.

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But for me, technology is
bringing the scale to accelerate

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and to make sure that all and
everybody, through the basis of

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telecommunication or technology,
is having access to all those

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tools to scale faster.

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An example with mobile money,
we're giving access to energy to

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millions of customers that can
buy solar home systems because

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we are scoring their credit
risk, we are scoring that

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ability to have this loan for
getting a solar home system.

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So technology for us will give
us access to data, will give us

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access to scale, and will give
access to insight and

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information about the markets. 

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Hassanein, Patrick, thank you so
much.