Data Governance and Policy in Africa

Bitange Ndemo is the Kenyan Ambassador to Belgium and the European Union Mission.  He was previously Professor of Entrepreneurship at the University of Nairobi, Kenya. His research focuses on the  link between ICT and small and medium enterprises, and how ICTs influence African economic development. He also served in President Kibaki’s administration as Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication. Njuguna Ndung’u is Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Nairobi. He is the Cabinet Secretary of the National Treasury of Kenya, a former Governor of the Central Bank of Kenya, and Executive Director at the African Economic Research Consortium. Scholastica Odhiambo is Manager of Research at the African Economic Research Consortium (AERC). She previously worked as a Senior Lecturer of Economics at Maseno University, Kenya.  Her research interests include quantitative data analysis, healthand development economics.   Abebe Shimeles is Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He formerly served as Director of Research at the African Economic Research Consortium.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: A Prototype Data Governance Framework for Africa.- Chapter 3: A Value Chain Approach to Data Production, Use and Governance for Sound Policy Making in Africa.- Chapter 4: Data Protection Legal Regime and Data Governance in Africa: An Overview.- Chapter 5: Data Regulation in Africa: Free Flow of Data, Open Data Regimes and Cyber Security.- Chapter 6: Digitalisation and Financial Data Governance in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities.-  Chapter 7: More Than Just a Policy - Day to Day Effects of Data Governance on the Data Scientist.- Chapter 8: The Economics of Blockchain Within Africa.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.

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