Digital Basis Africa, a pan-African assume tank targeted on unlocking and shaping the continent’s digital future by analysis, coverage and talent improvement and advocacy in advancing digitalization and digital applied sciences, has introduced its maiden analysis dubbed “The West Africa Digital Competitiveness Index”.
The Index measures, accesses and ranks which of the West Africans states is implementing, adopting whereas utilizing good insurance policies amongst different makes use of of digital providers whereas mapping the expansion of its digital improvement sectors for socio-economic transformations.
Utilizing about 10 variables from Cell Cash & On-line transactions to Digital Infrastructure & Coverage implementation on this maiden observatory examine, Ghana leads the Anglophone West Africa.
In the meantime, Cote D’Iovire, the digital aggressive Francophone West Africa with Cabo Verde main Lusophone West Africa as essentially the most digital aggressive nation whereas Niger, Burkina Faso and Mauritania are the worst digital aggressive west African states.
Based on Foster Kofi Sam, Co-Founder/CVO, the rating would information ECOWAS states of their method within the implementation and improvement of the digital sector, therefore translating into how residents transact and use digital of their day by day lives.
After the discharge of the index, actions will likely be held to have interaction governments and different stakeholders per nation to assist in the route and way forward for the digital sector.
The West Africa version is a part of an even bigger Pan-African Digital Index, the muse intends to work from 2023.
Extra particulars of the index will likely be additional launched on the Index’s official web site, www.index.digitalfoundation.africa
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