SADC Futures of Digital Geopolitics: Towards African Digital Sovereignty

Three dominant regulatory approaches to digitalisation, associated with the three most dominant geopolitical role players, currently exist: the essentially market-driven US approach; the state-centred Chinese approach; and the emerging European approach that bills itself as trustworthy and human centric.  

In order for Africa to break the historical chains that confine it to a subsidiary position in global supply chains, it will have to sequence digital development on its own terms, driven by its developmental needs and to further digital democracy.

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25 Jan 2023

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