Africa–Europe Cooperation and Digital Transformation

Foreword 
Vera Songwe

Foreword
Jutta Urpilainen

1 Digitalisation for Transformation: New Frontiers for Africa–Europe Cooperation
Chux Daniels, Benedikt Erforth, and Chloe Teevan

2 The EU–AU Digital Partnership: Between Digital Geopolitics and Digital Sovereignty
Kerstin Fritzsche and Daniel Spoiala

3 The Spread of Chinese Surveillance Tools in Africa: A Focus on Ethiopia and Kenya
Bulelani Jili

4 The Artificial Intelligence – Biotech Revolution in Africa
Eleonore Pauwels and Klaus Tilmes

5 African Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises Need to Digitally Transform to Benefit from the Africa Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)
Tunde Fafunwa and Fola Odufuwa

6 Digitalisation, Globalisation, and COVID-19: Unpacking the Opportunities for African Labour Markets
Karishma Banga

7 Digitalise to Industrialise: Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and the Africa–Europe Partnership
Karim El Aynaoui, Larabi Jaïdi, and Akram Zaoui

8 Digital Water: An Analysis of EU and US Digital Water Initiatives in Africa
Tamanna Ashraf

9 Digitalisation and Revenue Mobilisation in Ghana: The Role of Evidence-Based Stakeholder Engagements
Andrew Agyei-Holmes, Bernardin Senadza, and Felix Ankomah Asante

10 Where Privacy Meets Politics: EU–Kenya Cooperation in Data Protection
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
Michael Gastrow and Rachel Adams

12 Putting People at the Centre of Digital Policy: Mechanisms for Citizen Engagement in Nigeria
Joe Abah, Krista Baptista, Connor MacKenzie, and Anand Varghese

13 Digital Skills in Africa: Prospects for AU–EU Collaboration
Sajitha Bashir and Chux Daniels

14 Digitalisation and Transformative Learning for Sustainable Futures in Rural Africa: Leaving No One Behind
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
Zuzana Sladkova and Sumbal Bashir

16 Fostering Prosperity for African Female Entrepreneurs: Opportunities for AU–EU Cooperation in Digital Entrepreneurship Networks
Francine Beleyi

Biography

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.

"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 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 Affairs Officer at the UNCTAD, Switzerland

“Through the diversity of perspectives represented throughout, this edited volume offers a clear diagnosis of the continental considerations regarding global digital transformation. In doing so, the contributors describe the dynamic nature of IR and call for a restoration of African leadership in North-South collaboration. The book will be useful not only to specialists, but also to policy-makers and to those working within African studies and researching the ways in which African agency creates and transforms the world order.”

Annette Rolfe, University of Portsmouth, UK, writing in International Affairs 100: 3, pp. 1346-47, 2024