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A comprehensive policy framework and investment blueprint for building sovereign, human-centred digital ecosystems across Africa. 186 pages, 142 policy recommendations, 6 chapters.
Ownership patterns, investment flows, and sovereignty gaps in Africa’s digital backbone — from submarine cables to cloud computing.
Frameworks for sovereign data management, cross-border data flows, and community-owned data governance models.
Human-centred approaches to artificial intelligence, blockchain, and emerging technologies in African contexts.
Comparative policy analysis across 47+ African nations, tracking legislation, regulation, and institutional development.
Investment analysis, market sizing, and economic modelling for sovereign digital ecosystems and IREZ zones.
Standards harmonisation, interoperability frameworks, and continental coordination for digital sovereignty.
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Detailed technical architecture for implementing Community-owned, African-protocol, Mesh-governed, Pan-continental, Sovereign data infrastructure.
A practical guide for establishing Innovation & Research Economic Zones, covering legislative requirements, governance structures, and fiscal incentives.
Open dataset tracking digital infrastructure ownership, investment, and sovereignty metrics across all 54 African Union member states.
The Ubuntuverse Institute is an independent research and strategy organisation dedicated to advancing sovereign, human-centred digital ecosystems across the African continent and the Global South.
We produce rigorous policy research, develop actionable frameworks, and convene stakeholders across government, industry, and civil society to chart a path from digital dependency to digital self-determination.
I am because we are. Technology must serve collective human flourishing, not individual extraction.
Communities, nations, and continents have the right to own, govern, and benefit from their digital infrastructure.
Our recommendations are grounded in evidence, transparent methodology, and peer-reviewed research.
Knowledge is a public good. Our research is published under Creative Commons for maximum accessibility.
Digital transformation must narrow, not widen, existing inequalities across and within nations.
We design for generational impact, not quarterly metrics. Infrastructure decisions echo for decades.
Flagship reports, working papers, and data-driven analysis on digital sovereignty, infrastructure ownership, and technology governance across 47+ countries.
The CAMPS framework and IREZ model provide actionable architectures for building sovereign digital ecosystems at community, national, and continental scale.
Bringing together policymakers, technologists, investors, and community leaders to translate research into policy action and institutional change.
A comprehensive framework for building resilient, sovereign digital ecosystems. Research, data, and actionable strategy for the next era of human-centered technology.
Data-driven insights from across the global digital sovereignty landscape
Six chapters covering the full landscape of digital sovereignty, AI integration, and human-centered systems design.
How Africa’s digital infrastructure became a site of value extraction, and why sovereignty demands new architectural thinking.
The CAMPS framework: Community-owned infrastructure, African protocols, Mesh governance, Pan-continental standards, and Sovereign data.
Innovation & Research Economic Zones: special jurisdictions designed to incubate sovereign digital ecosystems at continental scale.
New models for value creation, distribution, and governance that center collective prosperity over extraction.
Transparent research methodology, data sources, investment frameworks, and analytical models used throughout the PlayBook.
Step-by-step guides, templates, and decision frameworks for organizations ready to act on the report’s findings.
“The question is no longer whether we build sovereign digital infrastructure — it is whether we build it fast enough, equitably enough, and with sufficient wisdom to serve the generations that follow.”
Africa stands at a crossroads. The continent’s digital economy is projected to reach $2.4 trillion by 2035, yet 87% of its digital infrastructure remains owned, operated, or controlled by entities headquartered outside the continent. This structural dependency — what we term the digital extraction economy — represents both the defining challenge and the generational opportunity of our era.
The PlayBook presents a comprehensive framework for reversing this trajectory. Drawing on 142 policy recommendations across six thematic chapters, it proposes a new architecture for Africa’s digital future: one built on community ownership, sovereign data governance, and pan-continental interoperability.
At its core is the CAMPS framework — a five-pillar model for constructing digital ecosystems that serve African communities rather than extracting from them. Complementing this is the IREZ model: Innovation & Research Economic Zones designed to provide the jurisdictional, financial, and technical infrastructure for sovereign digital development at scale.
This is not a manifesto. It is a blueprint — tested, refined, and offered freely to anyone committed to building a more resilient digital future.
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Download The PlayBook to access all six chapters, 142 policy recommendations, and the complete CAMPS + IREZ technical architecture.
