# TikTok Broadcasts New Security Initiatives for African Customers

With its future within the U.S. nonetheless up within the air, TikTok continues to increase its efforts in different areas, so as to construct on its prolonged enterprise alternatives.

And Africa, which is steadily enhancing its digital connectivity, may find yourself taking part in a big function on this.

Aligning with this, final week, TikTok held its second annual Sub-Saharan Africa Safer Web Summit in Cape City, South Africa, the place it introduced a spread of updates to assist make sure that African area TikTok customers are secure and guarded throughout the app.

These embrace new digital literacy coaching, regional partnerships to fight misinformation, in addition to an growth of TikTok’s #SaferTogether marketing campaign to extra African areas, together with Nigeria.

As reported by The Guardian:

“In Nigeria, the second section of the marketing campaign is being carried out in collaboration with the Nationwide Data Know-how Growth Company (NITDA) and Information Science Nigeria (DSN). The initiative goals to achieve extra areas and have interaction stakeholders, together with mother and father, academics, and group leaders.”

TikTok additionally introduced an growth of its International Youth Council, a consultative group of younger individuals whom TikTok works with on security and privateness developments. The Youth Council now consists of representatives from Nigeria, in addition to different Sub-Saharan African nations.

As famous, this is a vital area for the app, as a result of as extra African nations enhance their connective capability, that can see hundreds of thousands extra individuals achieve entry to platforms like TikTok. And as such, being in on the bottom flooring, as adoption spreads, may guarantee higher alternatives for the app.

Solely 27% of the whole inhabitants of sub-Saharan Africa is at the moment utilizing cellular web providers, with greater than a billion individuals in Africa not on-line. New connectivity tasks are being initiated to handle community gaps, whereas diminished price of entry can be seeing increasingly African individuals come on-line, and contribute to the digital economic system.

TikTok reportedly has round 230 million customers within the Center East and Africa, making this its second largest regional market (behind Asia Pacific), and that would assist it set up a basis for vital development within the area.

And if it loses entry to its 170 million U.S. customers, that would grow to be much more necessary.