Director Geral da Elevate visita ICEF
O Director Geral da Elevate, Communications & Technologies, Sérgio dos Céus Nelson, visitou hoje a Associação ICEF, presidida pela Empresária Mody Maleiane, tendo sido recebido pela Responsável do Pelouro de Assuntos Jurídicos e Advogada Tatiana dos Santos Cumba, sócia da TSC Advogados.
O momento serviu para estudar possibilidades de cooperação, nas áreas em que as duas entidades operam, tendo sido dos maiores pontos de debate questões referentes ao empreendedorismo feminino
OPEN LETTER TO LARRY ELLISON: WE NEED A NEW KIND OF TECHNOLOGY
A call for responsibility, inclusion, and purpose in the global innovation landscape
Larry, we need to talk
You are one of the most influential figures in the history of modern technology, Founder of Oracle, Pioneer in enterprise data. A billionaire, a competitor, a visionary. Your legacy is woven into the digital architecture of governments, corporations, and institutions around the world and yet, I write not to praise what has already been done, but to question what must now be reimagined.
Not as a software engineer, not as a startup founder, but as someone building a new kind of platform for emerging global talent and as a citizen of a world where technology is transforming faster than our values can catch up. This is a letter, yes, but more importantly, a signal, a flare in the sky. I truly think that we need a new kind of technology. And we need new kinds of leadership to help shape it.
We live in an age of acceleration, artificial intelligence is rewriting medicine, design, education, and warfare. There are more smartphones than people around the world and we can simulate galaxies, stream entire libraries, automate industries and yet, over 2.7 billion people still lack meaningful access to the internet. Whole regions are excluded from the benefits of the digital economy. We see that open innovation is increasingly reserved for those who can afford proprietary APIs, cloud credits, or GPUs and a new form of technological feudalism is consolidating: where the few dictate the platforms on which the many must build.
I would say yes, technology won. But inclusion lost and we know the current model is built on scarcity, not abundance.
RESPECTED AND ADMIRED LARRY,
Your life’s work has been about building power through infrastructure, from mainframes to the cloud, Oracle helped define how institutions process and protect data at scale, but the model we’ve inherited and often normalized is deeply flawed, I think. Instead of decentralizing opportunity, it has centralized control. Instead of enabling the many, it often optimizes for the few.
It is easy to realize that we are surrounded by walled gardens, exorbitant licenses, and opaque governance models. The more powerful technology becomes, the more exclusionary it seems to grow and that, frankly, is a failure of imagination, not of engineering. That’s why I think we need a new kind of technology, not just more efficient, not just more profitable, but more ethical, more accessible, more purpose-driven. I am talking about a kind of technology that doesn’t just automate tasks, but elevates people and builds not only products, but possibilities.
This “next generation” of technology must be accessible from the bottom up, not just free trials for startups in Silicon Valley, but real infrastructure for rural schools, refugee camps, indigenous communities, and informal settlements and if we want to talk about embracing geographic and cultural diversity, we cannot build “global AI” models if we ignore the linguistic, social, and historical contexts of the Global South. Well, it is important to mention that intelligence doesn’t only speak English and innovation doesn’t only wear hoodies in Palo Alto. We need to be guided, sometimes, by social purpose, not only venture returns.
The current funding logic excludes projects that serve the public good but don’t promise unicorn-scale exits. Why not create open funds for civic technology, education, climate resilience, or indigenous knowledge systems? Can we talk about valuing non-technical knowledge as technology? What if wisdom from the margins lived experience, oral traditions, indigenous science was treated with the same respect as source code? Can we talk about this? Well, this letter is also for Elon Musk, Jensen Huang (NVIDIA), Sam Atlman (OpenAi), and others.
I think companies like Oracle, Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, Google are not just corporations, you are planetary forces that have more capital than most countries, you set the standards, not just the software and actually influence public policy, whether you intend to or not. That’s why I think it is time to create inclusive platforms, fund new voices and visions, rebalance power between creators and gatekeepers and rebuild trust in technology as a tool for progress, not profit alone (which is important).
ELEVATE TECH CENTER: A GLIMPSE OF THE FUTURE
I am writing to you as the founder of a new initiative called the Elevate Tech Center, a fully virtual hub designed to connect talent from underrepresented regions with global mentors, infrastructure, and opportunities. We are building an ecosystem for those who have been left out of the tech conversation, not because they lack brilliance, but because they lack access and we are mapping emerging minds in Mozambique (where I am located), and different parts of Africa, in particular.
I believe the next Tech Guru might be a 14-year-old in the slums of Lagos. The next breakthrough in energy or health might come from a lab in rural Inhambane. They might need a platform, someone to open the door.
ACTUALLY, WHY AM I WRITING TO YOU, LARRY?
Because you helped build the old model and that gives you the power and perhaps the duty to help evolve it, because you have nothing left to prove and everything to gain from redefining what legacy really means. History doesn’t remember those who only optimized for efficiency, I think it remembers those who built bridges where others built walls. Using “Elevate Tech Center”, for example, you could fund scholarships, sponsor new open technologies, mentor founders outside the usual circuits or launch a global challenge for inclusive innovation. I think this is not about leading another revolution, just support the next one.
THIS LETTER IS ADDRESSED TO YOU, LARRY
But it’s also for every leader, investor, policymaker, and technologist who has the privilege of shaping the direction of innovation in the 21st century. We don’t need more billion-dollar valuations. We need billion-person solutions. We don’t need more dashboards, we need decision-makers who understand dignity. So, to all of you who hold the keys to the future, we invite you not to give us space, but to help us build a larger table, one where the next wave of innovation doesn’t just scale, but it serves.
Larry, if this letter ever reaches you,
I hope it’s not read as criticism, but as conviction, the conviction that technology is too important to be left to the powerful alone. We don’t need a new operating system, we need a new operating philosophy and the world is calling for a more humane, inclusive, decentralized, and regenerative form of innovation.
The question is:
Will those who built the old world help us shape the new one?
WITH RESPECT AND PURPOSE,
Sérgio dos Céus Nelson
Founder – Elevate, Communications & Technologies, Lda
Founder – Elevate Tech Center
Host – Golden Mind Sessions (Podcast)
E-mail: sergiodoscnelson@gmail.com
Website: www.elevatecommstech.com
ELEVATE APOIA WORKSHOP ALUSIVO AO DIA DO ADVOGADO
A ICEF vai realizar, no próximo dia 11 de Setembro, na Orange Corners, um workshop alusivo ao Dia do Advogado, sob o tema “Empreendedorismo & Direito: a importância da legalização dos negócios” – um evento que visa destacar a relevância da formalização jurídica dos negócios, capacitando, através dos debates, empreendedores e demais profissionais a compreenderem a importância de regularizar empreendimentos. Ademais, o workshop representa uma oportunidade singular para que os empresários, de diversos ramos de actuação, esclareçam dúvidas e façam networking.
As vagas são limitadas.
Para mais informações, entre em contacto:
(+258) 866925036 (WhatsApp).