Abstract
This paper synthesises, categorises, and provide clarity on the African continent’s digital transformation (DT) programs that align with United Nations development initiatives and Africa’s Agenda 2063 and its subprograms. It provides that analysis needed to understand the digital landscape across the continent for those interested in FDI opportunities and other social enterprises looking to impacts all aspects of African socioeconomic digital development. I believe this paper is relevant for understanding the challenges and opportunities of the current and future areas of the African digital ecosystem.
Highlights
A new generation of youthful ‘digital natives’ is growing across Africa and set to fuel growth and drive adoption of new digital technologies services geared to impact all areas of African society, empowering lives, transforming businesses, and increasing engagement, equitability, and wellbeing — impacting all the continent’s cities, towns, and villages
Empirical work undertaken across the African Union (AU) highlights vision priority areas as covering economic growth, sustainable development, employment, and wellbeing for people and communities, with initiatives being developed for the broader and long-term AU Agenda 2063, forming the first of the 10-year incremental phasing strategies using technologies to impact critical sectors of, among others, agriculture, energy, environment, health, infrastructure development, mining, security, and water (OECD, 2017; World Economic Forum (WEF), 2016; World Bank (WB), 2019a)
The study used international policy documents, briefings, working papers, frameworks, and roadmaps of actions used by the AU, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) agencies, WB, OECD, WEF, Institute for Security Studies (ISS), World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS), and International Telecommunication Union (ITU) obtainable across search engines, specialist database, Government and non-governmental agencies across African countries, EU, USA
Summary
A new generation of youthful ‘digital natives’ is growing across Africa and set to fuel growth and drive adoption of new digital technologies services geared to impact all areas of African society, empowering lives, transforming businesses, and increasing engagement, equitability, and wellbeing — impacting all the continent’s cities, towns, and villages. Empirical work undertaken across the African Union (AU) highlights vision priority areas as covering economic growth, sustainable development, employment, and wellbeing for people and communities, with initiatives being developed for the broader and long-term AU Agenda 2063, forming the first of the 10-year incremental phasing strategies using technologies to impact critical sectors of, among others, agriculture, energy, environment, health, infrastructure development, mining, security, and water (OECD, 2017; WEF, 2016; WB, 2019a). This empirical investigation combining the role that selected digital technologies play in overcoming social and economic challenges is presented and discussed.
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