Africa cannot build a borderless digital economy with borders between regulators, By Shuaib S. Agaka
At the ITW Data Cloud Africa 2026 event in Nairobi, Kenya, the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, called for a more unified regulatory approach across Africa, arguing that fragmented approval systems can delay projects and create uncertainty for technology investors.
That contradiction is becoming harder to ignore as Africa moves deeper into cloud computing, artificial intelligence and large-scale digital infrastructure.
The continent has a large and growing market, but its potential is spread across countries with different regulatory capacities, infrastructure and investment environments.
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