e-Governance
While Africa has made good progress catching up with most e-services, with more than half of the Africans having some digital id card, the continent is still lagging in adopting e-governance practices. A big cross-cutting problem is the lack of internet – UN estimates that only 22% of the African population has access to the internet.
While Africa has made good progress catching up with most e-services, with more than half of the Africans having some digital id card, the continent is still lagging in adopting e-governance practices. A big cross-cutting problem is the lack of internet – UN estimates that only 22% of the African population has access to the internet.
E-governance is important since developing it will improve all countries’ economies on the continent, reduce corruption, and engage citizens more actively in the decision-making process.
E-developments inspire African entrepreneurs to develop new solutions that are fine-tuned to match the African market’s needs, and that will give a remarkable boost to the local economy.
Ideas we are looking for:
- Develop good guidelines and tools for building e-states.
- Creating digital public service platforms and platforms which support providing governance related services digitally.
- e-Participation as a tool for engagement and strengthened collaboration between governments and citizen.
- Digital market for Africa- with products and services accessible easily throughout the continent.
- Data-driven public policies and decision-making (big data, AI, IoT, blockchain).
- Mobile Government: challenges, opportunities and establishing proper standards.
- Legally binding digital ID and eSignature- eID.
