Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation

Chux Daniels is Research Fellow at the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) and Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) Africa Hub, both at the University of Sussex Business School, UK. He is also a Senior Fellow at the African Centre for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana, and visiting faculty at the Universities of Pretoria and Johannesburg, South Africa.Benedikt Erforth is Senior Researcher in the Programme Transnational- and International Cooperation at the German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), where he co-leads the "Megatrends Afrika" project.Chloe Teevan is Head of Digital Economy and Governance at the European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM), the Netherlands. She is also a non-resident scholar with the North Africa and Sahel programme at the Middle East Institute in Washington DC, USA.

• Foreword by Vera Songwe Foreword by Jutta Urpilainen 1 Digitalisation for Transformation: New Frontiers for Africa–Europe Cooperation 2 The EU–AU Digital Partnership: Between Digital Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty 3 The Spread of Chinese Surveillance Tools in Africa: A Focus on Ethiopia and Kenya 4 The Artificial Intelligence – Biotech Revolution in Africa 5 African Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Need to Digitally Transform to Benefit from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 6 Digitalisation, Globalisation, and COVID-19: Unpacking the Opportunities for African Labour Markets 7 Digitalise to Industrialise: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and the Africa–Europe Partnership 8 Digital Water: An Analysis of EU and the US Digital Water Initiatives in Africa 9 Digitalisation and Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana: The Role of Evidence-Based Stakeholder Engagements 10 Where Privacy Meets Politics: EU–Kenya Cooperation in Data Protection 11 Digitalisation in Science and Technology Policy: Engagement, Alignment, and Misalignment Between the European Union and South African Data Protection and Privacy Frameworks 12 Putting People at the Centre of Digital Policy: Mechanisms for Citizen Engagement in Nigeria 13 Digital Skills in Africa: Prospects for AU–EU Collaboration 14 Digitalisation and Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures in Rural Africa: Leaving No One Behind 15 Feminist Digital Development: The Missing Jigsaw Piece in the European Union’s Strategic Partnership with Africa 16 Fostering Prosperity for African Female Entrepreneurs: Opportunities for AU–EU Cooperation in Digital Entrepreneurship Networks

"This book provides expert insights and thoughtful perspectives that are immensely useful for policymakers and stakeholders in understanding innovation and digital opportunities for Africa–Europe cooperation. This is must for your reading list."Rob Floyd, Director for Innovation and Digital Policy at the African Center for Economic Transformation (ACET), Ghana"It is encouraging to see that the authors of this book have made an important contribution to guide the discourse on digital development and North–South collaboration towards a much-needed holistic awareness of digital challenges and opportunities, while addressing many of the SDGs."Dimo Calovski, Economic Affairs Officer at the UNCTAD, Switzerland“Through the diversity of perspectives represented throughout, this edited volume offers a clear diagnosis of the continental considerations regarding global digital transformation. In doing so, the contributors describe the dynamic nature of IR and call for a restoration of African leadership in North-South collaboration. The book will be useful not only to specialists, but also to policy-makers and to those working within African studies and researching the ways in which African agency creates and transforms the world order.”Annette Rolfe, University of Portsmouth, UK, writing in International Affairs 100: 3, pp. 1346-47, 2024