Table Of Content“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 a 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 Afairs Ofcer at the
UNCTAD, Switzerland
AFRICA–EUROPE COOPERATION
AND DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION
Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation explores the opportunities
and challenges for cooperation between Africa and Europe in the digital sphere.
Digitalisation and digital technologies are not only essential for building
competitive and dynamic economies; they transform societies, pose immense
challenges for policymakers, and increasingly play a pivotal role in global power
relations. Digital transformations have had catalytic efects on African and
European governance, economies, and societies, and will continue to do so. The
COVID-19 pandemic has already accelerated the penetration of digital tools all
over the globe and is likely to be perceived as a critical juncture in how and to
what purpose the world accepts and uses new and emerging technologies. This
book ofers a holistic analysis of how Africa and Europe can manage and harness
digital transformation as partners in a globalised world. The authors shed light
on issues ranging from economic growth, youth employment, and gender, to
regulatory frameworks, business environments, entrepreneurship, and interest-
driven power politics. They add much-needed perspectives to the debates that
shape the two continents’ digital transformation and innovation environments.
This book will interest practitioners working in the areas of innovation,
digital technologies, and digital entrepreneurship, as well as students and scholars
of international relations. It will also be relevant for policymakers, regulators,
decision-makers, and leaders in Africa and Europe.
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.
Innovations in International Afairs
Series Editor: Rafaele Marchetti, LUISS Guido Carli, Italy
Innovations in International Afairs aims to provide cutting-edge analyses of con-
troversial trends in international afairs with the intent to innovate our under-
standing of global politics. Hosting mainstream as well as alternative stances, the
series promotes both the re-assessment of traditional topics and the exploration
of new aspects.
The series invites both engaged scholars and refective practitioners, and is
committed to bringing non-western voices into current debates.
Innovations in International Afairs is keen to consider new book proposals in the
following key areas:
• Innovative topics: related to aspects that have remained marginal in schol-
arly and public debates
• International crises: related to the most urgent contemporary phenomena
and how to interpret and tackle them
• World perspectives: related mostly to non-western points of view
Titles in this series include:
The Russia Scare
Fake News or Genuine Threat?
Richard Sakwa
International and Local Actors in Disaster Response
Responding to the Beirut Explosion
Tania N. Haddad
The Broken Promise of Global Advocacy
Inequality in Global Interest Representation
Marcel Hanegraaf and Arlo Poletti
Megatrends of World Politics
Globalization, Integration and Democratization
Edited by Marina M. Lebedeva and Denis A. Kuznetsov
Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation
Edited by Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erforth and Chloe Teevan
Heterarchy in World Politics
Edited by Philip G. Cerny
For more information about this series, please visit: https://www .routledge .com
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AFRICA–EUROPE
COOPERATION
AND DIGITAL
TRANSFORMATION
Edited by Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erforth
and Chloe Teevan
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Title: Africa-Europe cooperation and digital transformation / edited by
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgements x
Notes on Contributors xii
Foreword xviii
Foreword xxi
1 Digitalisation for Transformation: New Frontiers for Africa–
Europe Cooperation 1
Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erforth, and Chloe Teevan
2 The EU–AU Digital Partnership: Between Digital
Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty 17
Kerstin Fritzsche and Daniel Spoiala
3 The Spread of Chinese Surveillance Tools in Africa: A Focus
on Ethiopia and Kenya 32
Bulelani Jili
4 The Artifcial Intelligence – Biotech Revolution in Africa 50
Eleonore Pauwels and Klaus Tilmes
5 African Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Need to
Digitally Transform to Beneft from the Africa Continental
Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) 66
Tunde Fafunwa and Fola Odufuwa
viii Contents
6 Digitalisation, Globalisation, and COVID-19: Unpacking
the Opportunities for African Labour Markets 83
Karishma Banga
7 Digitalise to Industrialise: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the
Africa–Europe Partnership 100
Karim El Aynaoui, Larabi Jaïdi, and Akram Zaoui
8 Digital Water: An Analysis of EU and US Digital Water
Initiatives in Africa 116
Tamanna Ashraf
9 Digitalisation and Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana: The
Role of Evidence-Based Stakeholder Engagements 130
Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Bernardin Senadza,
and Felix Ankomah Asante
10 Where Privacy Meets Politics: EU–Kenya Cooperation in
Data Protection 142
Benedikt Erforth and Charles Martin-Shields
11 Digitalisation in Science and Technology Policy:
Engagement, Alignment, and Misalignment Between the
European Union and South African Data Protection and
Privacy Frameworks 156
Michael Gastrow and Rachel Adams
12 Putting People at the Centre of Digital Policy: Mechanisms
for Citizen Engagement in Nigeria 168
Joe Abah, Krista Baptista, Connor MacKenzie, and Anand Varghese
13 Digital Skills in Africa: Prospects for AU–EU Collaboration 184
Sajitha Bashir and Chux Daniels
14 Digitalisation and Transformative Learning for Sustainable
Futures in Rural Africa: Leaving No One Behind 199
Niyanta Shetye, Heila Lotz-Sisitka, Eike Albrecht, Sarah Durr,
Dirk Marx, Dumisani Chirambo, Luke Metelerkamp, and Verena
van Zyl-Bulitta
15 Feminist Digital Development: The Missing Jigsaw Piece in
the European Union’s Strategic Partnership with Africa 215
Zuzana Sladkova and Sumbal Bashir
Contents ix
16 Fostering Prosperity for African Female Entrepreneurs:
Opportunities for AU–EU Cooperation in Digital
Entrepreneurship Networks 228
Francine Beleyi
Index 243
