Our vision of data in Africa | Africa Data Entry

Through our work with public and private players, and the GSDA debates, we have identified five issues that will shape the decade.

These issues share one thing: they require reliable data, governed and used by local skills. That is exactly where we come in.

The five issues

01
Financial inclusion through data
Mobile money has opened financial services to millions of people. The next step is to use transaction histories to offer suitable credit, savings and insurance, with transparent risk models.
02
Data-driven public services
Civil registration, tax, health, education: digitising public services produces data that, well governed, helps target policies and account to citizens.
03
Sovereignty over one's data
Knowing where your data is hosted, who can access it and under what rules has become a strategic issue for states and companies alike. It requires local infrastructure, enforced laws and national skills.
04
Skills, the first capital
The continent's youth is its main asset. Training at scale for data and AI careers — and keeping that talent — conditions everything else.
05
The technology leap
Mobile first, offline by design, frugal AI models: Africa can invent uses suited to its constraints rather than copy architectures designed elsewhere.

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