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Africa has and continues to be DiploFoundation’s key focus area in achieving its mission of improving the role of small and developing states in international affairs by providing capacity development in the field of digital diplomacy, internet governance, and tech regulation.
Through various capacity development initiatives, Diplo has supported Africa’s effective participation and meaningful engagement in international and regional governance and policy development, making Africa an influential global player.
Diplo has strategically positioned itself and strengthened its outreach by leveraging on its core competencies in Internet governance and diplomacy/foreign policy and its Alumni spread out in the continent.
With a focus on Africa, here you can find information on events, articles, and resources in Diplo’s tripartite digital diplomacy methodology: GEOPOLITICS, TOPICS and TOOLS.
A walk through Diplo’s Africa projects
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17.02.2009
Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme for ACP countries
The 2009-2011 programme was designed for regional and sub-regional institutions... -
17.05.2016
CD Multi
CD Multi (Capacity Development Programme in Multilateral Diplomacy) aims to... -
09.03.2021
Sustainable Capacity Building: Internet Governance in Africa
How is Africa building capacities for internet governance (IG) and... -
17.10.2021
AU-GFCE Cybersecurity Knowledge Modules
Diplo works with the Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE)... -
10.01.2022
Digital Diplomacy Training for Diplomats – Namibia
The 10-day intensive training in digital diplomacy tackles a broad... -
01.10.2022
Just-in-time capacity building for Rwandan Diplomacy
The rising interest in digital diplomacy reflects the importance of...
Diplo’s content on Africa
Diplo’s Scroll through various resources and blogs on Africa’s digital diplomacy and other related topics.
Resources
Rapport: Des voix africaines plus fortes dans le numérique : construire une politique étrangère et une diplomatie africaines du numérique
À mesure que le dynamisme numérique de l'Afrique s'accroît, sa participation à la politique numérique mondiale doit augmenter. Dans cette transition, les pays africains doivent composer avec les réalités géopolitiques de notre époque.... Read more...
Stronger digital voices from Africa: Building African digital foreign policy and diplomacy
As Africa’s digital dynamism grows, its participation in global digital policy must increase. In this
transition, African countries have to navigate the geopolitical realities of our times.
The report is also Read more...
Sustainable Capacity Building: Internet Governance in Africa – An Action Plan
Enhancing sustainable capacity building on internet governance (IG) would have positive consequences within and beyond the African context. Considering the importance of the issues that fall under the framework of IG – ranging from providing access to infrastructure... Read more...
International cyber security diplomatic negotiations: Role of Africa in inter-regional cooperation for a global approach on the security and stability of cyberspace
This research paper examines African countries cybersecurity readiness and how Africa can play a role in shaping international negotiations and discussions on global cybersecurity governance.... Read more...
Developing Community-level Capacity Assessment Tools: Perspectives and Practical Applications in the Context of Rural Africa (Briefing Paper #11)
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Namibia’s Digital Foreign Policy and Diplomacy (Briefing Paper #3)
This briefing paper emerged from Diplo's participation in Namibia's Foreign Policy Review Conference (July 2016). In this paper, Dr Katharina E. Höne suggests a three-pronged approach to Namibia's digital foreign policy and diplomacy, and looks at the discourse on inf... Read more...
Common African Position on the Post-2015 Development Agenda
The participatory approach that led to the elaboration of the Common African Position (CAP) on the post-2015 Development Agenda involving stakeholders at the national, regional and continental levels among the public and private sectors, parliamentarians, civil socie... Read more...
Democracy in Ghana: Lessons for Africa
Despite being one of Africa's finest democracies, Ghana's democracy is still a work in progress. What obstacles hinder Ghana's democracy from attaining maturity? Can these obstacles be removed to make Ghana an accomplished democracy or are they too entrenched to be rem... Read more...
For an effective taxation of electronic commerce in Madagascar
This research paper focuses on the taxation of electronic commerce (or e-commerce) in Madagascar. The objectives of this project are to offer insight and help the fiscal administration for future governmental programmes focusing on the taxation of e-commerce in Madagas... Read more...
Facing the challenges of an Africa-wide ICT strategy
'There is a need to address these challenges to enhance the capacity of the AU organs, institutions and member states to better respond to instances of ICT policy in Africa. As part of the evolving African governance architecture, there is a need to formulate an ICT st... Read more...
Book of Abstracts (Internet Governance)
This collection of abstracts comes from from research projects conducted during the 2010/2011 Internet Governance Capacity Building Programme (IGCBP).... Read more...
An Examination of the Role of Women in Conflict Management: Sierra Leone Case Study
This paper examines the role of women in conflict management, using Sierra Leone as a case study.... Read more...
Facilitating meaningful participation of Africa
'Attending the IGF presented me with an opportunity to interact with the people behind the emails and with notable personalities in the IGF process or Internet-related institutions including the IGF secretariat, ITU, ICANN, etc.' - Mwende Njiraini from Kenya... Read more...
A developing country’s perspective on IG issues
'Among all the country members of the East African Community, only Burundi, my country, was absent from that EAIGF... That’s why, at the end of the IGF in Hyderabad, I came back with a new dream: An IGF Burundi.' - Jean Paul Nkurunziza from Burundi... Read more...
Development Aid and Nigeria’s Poverty Challenge: Millenium Development Goals 4 and 5 in Focus
The quest to eradicate poverty has been identified as the most critical challenge facing development in the world today. Women and children are disproportionately affected by poverty.... Read more...
Less Developed Countries in International System: Burkina Faso’s Experience Through the Diplomacy of Development
Burkina Faso is classified among the “Less Developed Countries” (LDCs). Its foreign policy is called “Diplomacy of development”. The first part of the dissertation presents the legal background of Burkina Faso’s international action through national reference... Read more...
Facing challenges for developing countries
'Development challenges are enormous for Africa and they go beyond promoting information and communication technology. One important issue currently is how Africa will solve its energy problems, which are a threat to progress on the continent.' - Ken Lohento from Benin... Read more...
China’s soft power in Africa: From the ‘Beijing Consensus’ to health diplomacy
China’s relations with Africa have steadily deepened and strengthened since the founding of “new China” in 1949. Evolving from ideologically-driven interactions during the Cold War, today’s China-Africa relations combine pragmatic economic and political means t... Read more...
An African Analysis of the War in Iraq
English translation of the book published in French under title: Une lecture Africaine de la guerre en Irak.... Read more...
A Selection of New diplomatic memoirs
I have just written a review article on these six books of British diplomatic memoirs for the English Historical Journal, so here I shall just provide some notes on those that I believe to be most valuable to students of diplomacy.... Read more...
Current developments in South African diplomacy
As the new South Africa adapts to an ever-changing regional, continental and global environment, this paper reviews current developments against the background of the historic situation and of the evolution of diplomacy world-wide. ... Read more...
South Africa
In R. Allison and P. Williams (eds), Superpower Competition and Crisis Prevention in the Third World (Cambridge UP, 1989), pp. 206-16.... Read more...
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