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"E-Governance in Africa 2025: Balancing Digitalisation and Self-Reliance" attempts to explore a broader understanding of digital sovereignty in the context of the digital transformation of public administration in African countries. The handbook builds on prior publications and research by the HSE University Center for African Studies, including E-Governance in Africa 2024 and Africa 2025: Prospects and Challenges.
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"E-Governance in Africa 2024: Opportunities and Challenges" is to serve as a handbook on digitalization of public administration in African countries and presents an overview of up-to-date information on e-Governance development in the region, trends, common challenges and solutions being implemented with a goal of shedding light on the diversity of e-governance initiatives in African countries.
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E-Gov profiles
E-Gov Profiles illustrate the process and continuity of e-governance development in African countries, when it started and what has been achieved. They also describe peculiarities of the particular e-gov systems, how the services, platforms, regulations work, what challenges they face and what opportunities exist.
E-Governance in Niger
E-Governance in Senegal
E-Governance in Uganda
E-Governance in Tanzania
E-Governance in Zimbabwe
Others
The chapter "African quest for digital sovereignty" of the "Africa 2025: Prospects and Challenges" handbook provides a broad understanding of digital sovereignty in the context of the digitalization of African countries, which is an opportunity for Africa to solve major socio-economic problems. Therefore, there is a growing need to ensure the independent development of the sector, including through the knowledge and experience exchange between the countries of the region. The chapter provides unique understanding of the foreign influence on digitalization processes and the role of enterprises, the real status of data storage localization and hosting of African websites. The role of African languages in increasing the social effectiveness of digitalization is also considered, and for the first time, an assessment of the availability of African languages on the websites of African e-governments is carried out.
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