African governments generate vast quantities of citizen data, from health records to tax filings, land registries and school enrolments. Much of it leaves the continent to be processed, modelled and monetised on foreign infrastructure. The insight comes back at a premium, while the economic value remains elsewhere — and AI is accelerating this. However, this […]
Data sovereignty refers to the principle that all data is subject to the laws and regulations of the nation state or jurisdiction in which it is collected. This concept gained prominence in the early 2010s following the Edward Snowden revelations about mass surveillance by the United States
Data sovereignty is a key priority for governments and other entities as they migrate to public cloud services