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UN Sustainable Development Goal
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Institutions, governance, justice, accountability and public trust.
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Digital Public Infrastructure in Africa: Procurement, Interoperability and Accountable Service Delivery
Digital public infrastructure can shorten the distance between a person and a public service. It can also concentrate failure, exclusion and supplier dependence inside systems that become difficult to replace. As African governments move from pilots to national and cross-border platforms, the central question is no longer whether to digitise. It is how to procure a modular, governed service that people can use, challenge and trust.
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Practical AI Adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa: Procurement, Local Adaptation and the Productivity Opportunity
Artificial intelligence is reaching African workers, firms and public institutions before the foundations for dependable use are evenly in place. The immediate opportunity is not to reproduce a frontier-model race. It is to procure and adapt task-specific tools that work with local languages, trusted data, affordable access and accountable institutions. This paper examines how Sub-Saharan African governments and investors can turn early adoption into productivity while keeping implementation risk visible.
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African Trade Integration: Customs, Corridors, Power, Payments and Standards as a Production System
Africa has built the legal architecture for a continental market. The harder task is making the systems firms use every day work across borders. StoneComms tests that challenge against live reforms in East, West, Central and Southern Africa and finds a practical investment implication: regional infrastructure should be financed as an operating system, not a collection of assets.
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