
#BoomingAfrica: frugal innovation and digital sovereignty
Between myths, models and realities, can frugal innovation serve genuine African digital sovereignty?
African cyber governance plays out at the crossroads of political decision, sovereignty and regional cooperation.

Cyber governance is not reducible to technical regulation: it links political choices, legal frameworks and cooperation among states, the private sector and civil society.
In Africa, the fragmentation of national frameworks hampers a coherent approach. Regional instruments exist but struggle to be applied.
Effective cyber governance requires aligning national sovereignty and continental cooperation, without setting one against the other.

Between myths, models and realities, can frugal innovation serve genuine African digital sovereignty?

Can the proven principles of military strategy inform the conduct of operations in cyberspace?

Since the Arpanet of the 1960s, Internet governance has taken shape largely without Africa. Can it weigh in?