Senegal has been trying to enhance its sustainability and digital sovereignty. The Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Financial system (MCTEN) has introduced a partnership with Sensible Africa and GIZ (by way of its knowledge economic system challenge). Collectively, the three organisations want to work in direction of attaining the Senegal Digital Technique 2025 (SN2025).

By means of a two-day workshop, accomplished on Friday, March 24, consultants from stakeholder teams and actors of the digital economic system met to gather and alternate data on knowledge infrastructures, the regulatory framework, governance and knowledge makes use of in Senegal.

This workshop was additionally a possibility to share the context and targets of the technique improvement challenge with your entire digital ecosystem.

“Africa’s digital sovereignty depends on the administration of its knowledge, the brand new oil. I subsequently significantly welcome the willingness of the Senegalese authorities to implement a nationwide knowledge technique to supervise and handle the usage of knowledge”, stated Lacina Koné, director common of Sensible Africa, in the course of the opening ceremony of the workshop in Dakar.

“Senegal intends to perpetuate its dedication to the period of digital innovation primarily based on knowledge to additional increase the digital economic system by offering added worth in areas equivalent to bettering the event of public insurance policies or the modernization of public providers centered on customers,” stated Moussa Bocar Thiam, minister of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Financial system.

“GIZ on behalf of BMZ helps the Ministry of Communication, Telecommunications and Digital Financial system of Senegal, in partnership with Sensible Africa to develop the primary knowledge technique on the African continent contributing to the human-centered digital transformation” added Bjorn-Soren Gigler, PhD, head of information economic system and blockchain applications.