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Chapter 5 focuses on how, with such powerful positions, SIFs are being seen by their stakeholders not simply as vehicles for financial returns from digital infrastructure. They also enjoy significant leverage to serve multiple purposes for long-term investment strategies, solving countless needs from political pressures to domestic technology-infrastructure shortages.

New sovereign funds are being created to this end and existing funds are repurposed. Africa provides innovative examples of resource-based funds that foster the domestic digital ecosystem. This chapter describes the increase in collaboration among sovereign investors seeking to accelerate development of the domestic digital ecosystem from Italy to the UAE, from China to Russia, from Saudi Arabia to Egypt.