A working record of digital transformation and data governance across Africa, compiled from primary sources and published as it stands.

9,216 sources behind three reports for every country, with every figure dated to when it was true and every gap counted rather than left silent.

Countries

54 countries
  • Fifty-four countries, each with a status report, a monthly update and a twelve-month progress report.
  • Every system and instrument carries the date its position was established, because most of them change.
  • Where the base holds no reliable statement, the country page says so and counts it.
  • Coverage is deliberately uneven. The record goes deep where the work is, and stays thin elsewhere.
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Topics

10 categories, 38 topics
  • A controlled vocabulary in a strict single-parent tree, so a category rolls up to every topic beneath it.
  • A source carries as many topics as it evidences, and is counted under each of them.
  • Data protection, digital identity, cross-border data flows, connectivity, artificial intelligence and the rest.
  • Each topic resolves to the documents that evidence it, not to a summary of them.
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Finance

commitments, by country and sector
  • Commitments to the digital sector from financiers other than the state.
  • Development finance institutions, foundations, vendors and operators, at one row per commitment.
  • Amounts are given as announced, in the currency announced, converted at a dated rate.
  • These are commitments rather than disbursements, and nothing here implies the money was spent.
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Catalogue

9,216 records, metadata only
  • Title, publisher, date, facets and the publisher's own link, for every source held.
  • Metadata only. The catalogue points at the original and never republishes it.
  • Filter by place, topic and year; a filtered view keeps its own address, so it can be cited.
  • Access to the full base, source bodies included, is granted on request.
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What the base holds
Sources by publication year
≤2021788
2022228
2023310
2024741
20252,313
20264,836

Publication year of each source. Everything published before 2022 is held as one band, because it is the baseline the record starts from rather than a trend.

Sources by month, last six months
March 2026387
April 2026400
May 2026386
June 2026507
July 20261,694
August 2026663

This measures capture, not activity. The shape of it is set by when the sweeps ran and which countries were being initialised — a month with more documents is a month the base collected more, not a month in which more happened.

Countries
AGO287 BDI97 BEN264 BFA270 BWA226 CAF170 CIV376 CMR233 COD207 COG162 COM93 CPV160 DJI93 DZA202 EGY170 ERI14 ETH278 GAB121 GHA338 GIN103 GMB83 GNB36 GNQ75 KEN605 LBR95 LBY86 LSO81 MAR193 MDG92 MLI82 MOZ208 MRT71 MUS82 MWI147 NAM169 NER84 NGA699 RWA269 SDN61 SEN227 SLE86 SOM86 SSD93 STP39 SWZ94 SYC59 TCD108 TGO120 TUN82 TZA208 UGA272 ZAF629 ZMB161 ZWE189

Sources held per country. A source tagged to several countries is counted under each, so these sum to more than the total above: they measure coverage, not documents. A further 1,712 are tagged to a region or bloc rather than to a country.

Topics
Digital public infrastructuredpi.*6,892 Governancegov.*6,186 ICT Infrastructureinfra.*4,454 Financefinance.*3,165 Technologytech.*2,501 Inclusioninclude.*2,112 Capacitycapacity.*1,116 Datadata.*851 Geopoliticsgeopol.*766 Digitalisationdigital.*545

Level-1 categories, rolled up from the 38 topics beneath them. A source carries as many topics as it evidences, so these also sum to more than the total.

About this page
Built
2026-08-11
Counts
counted from raw-catalogue.csv — outputs/catalogue/stats.json not yet published
Derived from
Data Landscapers source base, commit ea6e045ec0be
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