digitise Africa – Building Stronger, Inclusive and Resilient Societies

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Advancing the Digital Paradigm
for Growth

digitiseAfrica is a campaign to raise awareness on the chronic underinvestment in digitisation/digitalisation for development.

The goal is to elevate the conversation surrounding the digital divide prevalent particularly in the public sector and also to demonstrate the transformative possibilities of leveraging modern technology to propel sustainable development on the continent.

Our mission is to build stronger, resilient societies across the continent with data, innovation and technology.

Founder/ Executive Director

Digital Transformation Agent | IT Business Consultant | Corporate/Public Policy Strategist | Advocate for High-Impact Collaborative Exchanges with over 10 years of diverse, cross-functional, multi-disciplinary expertise.

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Our Mission

Accelerating Sustainable Development

digitiseAfrica’s mission is to identify and explore high-impact opportunities that galvanise key stakeholders in society towards championing specific collaborative projects that leverage digital evidence-based mechanisms, insight and intelligent decision capabilities to pivot Africa into the 21st century. —accelerating inclusive, sustainable, multi-faceted and multi-sectoral outcomes across the continent.

As we begin the decade of action, digitiseAfrica is aligned with the 2030 United Nations (UN) agenda for sustainable development and call for action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity — utilising the disruptive power of information and communications technology to drive overall efforts towards achieving the seventeen (17) goals as acknowledged by UN Secretary-General António Guterres when he established the High-level Panel on Digital Cooperation in 2018.

Insights

Limitless
Possibilities

The World Bank in May 2020 reports that increased broadband coverage reduced the proportion of households below the poverty line by up to 4.3%.

Furthermore, in his talk on the importance of digitisation to Africa’s prosperity and socio-economic growth at a Nigeria Human Capital Event in March, 2018 conference, Bill Gates said:

‘According to the best estimates, digital financial services will create a 12.4 percent increase in Nigeria’s GDP by 2025. Meanwhile, oil accounts for about 10 percent of Nigeria’s GDP. Imagine adding another oil sector and then some to the economy, but one whose benefits spread far and wide and reach almost every single Nigerian.’

Opportunity

To deliver exponential transformation across critical sectors

These findings provide strong evidence to establish the link between digitisation and improved socio-economic indices. A positive outcome would be policy action on universal internet access to deepen digital and financial inclusion especially, in under-served communities.

While leadership plays a crucial role in shaping the digital development agenda, governments cannot carry the responsibility alone. digitiseAfrica recognises the power of multilateralism and building consensus towards advancing the digital agenda — that data and modern technology will provide the impetus, structure, control and lever to deliver exponential transformation across critical sectors such as Education, Healthcare and Agriculture and support the delivery of efficient public services (Energy, Water, Sanitation, Transportation) with wider applications in civic engagement, security, the electoral process, politics and governance.

Crowdfunding Campaign

Plan of Action

We will run a crowdfunding campaign in the weeks leading up to the 30th of April, 2021. The primary funding will go towards creating awareness of under investment in the digital transformation of the public sector and highlighting specific intervention areas through a series of deeply researched and heavily published infographics, explainer videos and commentary in digital format.

Insight from the research will also touch on the links between good data strategy, digital innovation and the United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s). Lastly, it will provide a call to action for cross-sector partnerships with public institutions towards exploring, amplifying and deepening the use of, and access to innovative digital technologies for shared value and a better world.

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Why we need
your support

We have put together a team and scoped the resources to carry out the preliminary work but need your support to get this project off-the-ground. Funding will go towards research, graphics, copywriting, video editing, website development and to digital marketing resources.

Data and Research

On specific areas where digital transformation has the potential for exponential impact. Outcome from this process will be an actionable whitepaper linking digital under investment and the SDGs.