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Data touches everyone, everywhere, making good data policy an inherently a cross-cutting and complex endeavor. Participatory processes for crafting and implementing data policy are one essential step in overcoming governance challenges and fostering an inclusive digital ecosystem.
Africa is poised to become a leader in Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), building on its success in digital payments and mobile transactions. While challenges persist, African nations are taking aggressive steps to harness the transformative potential of DPI.
Without a robust framework for the good governance of digital platforms, the promise of digitization may be overshadowed by its unintended consequences. Our research seeks to establish how to best design, implement, and govern digital platforms in a way that ensures their benefits are maximized and their risks minimized.
In order to understand the reality on the ground, the Digital Impact Alliance has produced three mini-briefs based on initiatives in mostly developing countries that seek to reach and provide highly localized digital products and services for digitally marginalized populations through a human-centered approach to data governance.
As more people globally connect to the internet, governments, communities, and private sector organizations have a tremendous opportunity to harness the power of digital to improve the quality of life for all