Africa’s digital sovereignty a timely and relevant debate
The rapid increase in internet access in Africa over the last 10 years, and the widespread deployment and adoption of digital technologies such as undersea and terrestrial cables, smartphones, sensors and artificial intelligence, have underpinned an exponential growth of the digital sphere in both scale and scope.
The data is stored and processed in servers located in the US, and the few that are located in Africa are still owned and operated by the same international companies. It is sold to advertisers and businesses and at times released on the orders of the US government, as the revelations by in 2013. Even the distribution of economic benefits accruing from digitisation is lopsided in favour of the few Big Tech companies.
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