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    • Smart Africa’s Digital Academy receives a $20mn grant from the World Bank to expand across Africa (1)
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Smart Africa’s Digital Academy receives a $20mn grant from the World Bank to expand across Africa

SADA aims to bridge the digital skills gap in African countries, improving employability and meeting the emerging talent needs of African citizens

The World Bank is partnering with Smart Africa (www.SmartAfrica.org), to scale up the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) initiative from a national to a regional focus as part of the Western Africa Regional Digital Integration Program (WARDIP), in a bid to advance regional integration of digital markets through a USD…

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    • Smart Africa hosted inaugural Digital Skills Forum in The Republic of Congo with over 700 participants (1)
    • Smart Africa hosted inaugural Digital Skills Forum in The Republic of Congo with over 700 participants (2)
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Smart Africa hosted inaugural Digital Skills Forum in The Republic of Congo with over 700 participants

The main topics addressed at this event were digital education, professional training, digital inclusion, access to infrastructure and technologies, and the promotion of entrepreneurship and digital innovation

Smart Africa (www.SmartAfrica.org) hosted the inaugural Digital Skills Forum, a pan-African event promoting the development of digital skills. Organized through the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) in collaboration with the Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications and Digital Economy (MPTEN), the Centre Africain de Recherche sur l'Intelligence Artificielle (CARIA) and the Africa…

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    • 5 Heads of States including a King, 44 ministers and around 4000 delegates from 91 countries have attended the Transform Africa Summit 2023 (1)
    • 5 Heads of States including a King, 44 ministers and around 4000 delegates from 91 countries have attended the Transform Africa Summit 2023 (2)
    • 5 Heads of States including a King, 44 ministers and around 4000 delegates from 91 countries have attended the Transform Africa Summit 2023 (3)
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    • 5 Heads of States including a King, 44 ministers and around 4000 delegates from 91 countries have attended the Transform Africa Summit 2023 (5)
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5 Heads of States including a King, 44 ministers and around 4000 delegates from 91 countries have attended the Transform Africa Summit 2023

The highly expected summit has kept all its promises and has been graced by the presence of the presidents from the republics of Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Malawi, Zambia and his majesty, the king of Eswatini

Kingdom of Eswatini becomes a new member state; A $1.5 million Institutional Support for Digital Payments and e-Commerce Policies for Cross-Border Trade Project (IDECT) project with AfDB among partnerships signed; 5 Heads of State graced the highly attended summit; 10 MoUs and membership agreements signed; Smart Africa Trust Alliance (SATA)…

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    • Senegal develops its national data strategy in partnership with Smart Africa and GIZ (1)
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    • Senegal develops its national data strategy in partnership with Smart Africa and GIZ (2)
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Senegal develops its national data strategy in partnership with Smart Africa and GIZ

Experts from stakeholder groups and actors of the digital economy met to collect and exchange information on data infrastructures, the regulatory framework, governance and data uses in Senegal

As part of the Senegal Digital Strategy 2025 (SN2025), and in partnership with Smart Africa (www.SmartAfrica.org) and GIZ via its Data Economy project, the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Economy (MCTEN) completed on Friday, March 24, the observation and brainstorming consultative workshop as part of the process to equip…

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    • Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) Launches its National Digital Academy in Ghana (1)
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Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) Launches its National Digital Academy in Ghana

The national digital academy will support the uniquely identified digital skills priority needs at the national level

Smart Africa’s (www.SmartAfrica.org) capacity building arm, the Smart Africa Digital Academy (SADA) in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation have launched a national digital academy in the country, marking the official kick off of in-country implementation of the initiative. The agreement is contained within a Memorandum of Understanding…

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    • Smart Africa and Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA) signed an MOU to advance the enforcement and harmonization of personal data protection laws in Africa (1)
    • Smart Africa and Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA) signed an MOU to advance the enforcement and harmonization of personal data protection laws in Africa (2)
    • Smart Africa and Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA) signed an MOU to advance the enforcement and harmonization of personal data protection laws in Africa (3)
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Smart Africa and Network of African Data Protection Authorities (NADPA) signed an Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to advance the enforcement and harmonization of personal data protection laws in Africa

It is in line with initiatives to make Africa a safe and enabling space for digital transformation

The Smart Africa Alliance (SA) (www.SmartAfrica.org) has signed an MOU today with NADPA/RAPDP (Network of African Data Protecion Authorities) to provide institutional support and enhance the enforcement capacities of the African National Authorities. Originally started during the first discussions between Smart Africa and NADPA/RAPDP held in Benguerir, Morocco, on November…