Fragmented sovereignty strategies could slow Africa’s cloud infrastructure buildout 

Africa’s ability to scale cloud platforms and digital infrastructure will depend on whether countries coordinate policy and demand across regional markets rather than pursue parallel national stacks, speakers said at…

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Continental cloud of clouds will secure Africa digital future – NITDA

Africa’s digital sovereignty will depend on building interoperable regional cloud infrastructure rather than isolated national systems, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, Director General of Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), said…

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Nigeria’s Sovereign Cloud test will shape Africa’s digital path

Nigeria is attempting something few African countries have managed successfully: turning digital sovereignty from a political slogan into a market-shaping instrument. Through its National Sovereign Cloud Initiative (NSCI), led by…

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Africa’s connectivity boom is creating a new dependence: Compute

Africa is laying the digital equivalent of highways at record speed—and importing almost everything that matters once the traffic arrives. The continent’s connectivity story has turned a corner. Subsea systems…

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We are ready to implement policies that enable you – NITDA tells hyperscalers

Nigeria’s technology regulator is moving to convert years of cloud and data-center policy into enforceable action, telling global hyperscalers that the government is prepared to implement, and legislate where necessary,…

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