AfroLeadership invited to the African Development Bank Group
On September 20, the General Director of Africa Central Region and Country Manager of Cameroun, Mr. Serge N’GUESSAN led a consultative meeting with different civil society organizations of Cameroon at their headquarters in Yaoundé. The purpose of this important meeting was to present the Country Diagnostic Note (CDN), discuss it, and get in touch with […]
AfroLeadership at the Preparatory Meetings of the MINFI – Civil Society Forum
Civil society and the Ministry of Finance (MINFI) will enter into dialogue in mid-October 2022, on a date to be confirmed, on the theme: “Public finance reforms and citizens’ well-being in a context of multidimensional crises.” This is the content of the preparatory work that took place on Friday, September 9, 2022, between the Public […]
Cameroon: Convergence of Public Administrations on the Open Contracting Data Standard
(Yaoundé – May 12, 2022) Members of Parliament, representatives of public administrations, and civil society organizations in Cameroon gathered around the Coordinator of the National Governance Program under the Prime Minister’s Office, as part of the Open Government Working Group sessions. The discussions focused on the Open Contracting Partnership (OCP) through the initiative “Supporting responsible […]
Data Justice Research Project
This project expands upon a research program on Data Governance, managed by the Global Partnership on AI (“GPAI”). GPAI’s Data Governance Working Group selected two projects as part of GPAI’s first work plan including “Advancing data justice research and practice”. Without rights-preserving frameworks for the governance of data, AI’s potential to tackle some of the […]
Digital Politics Winter School is coming!
We are delighted to announce the Postgraduate Winter School in Digital Politics, taking place online on 14-18 February 2022 This Winter School makes a series of critical interventions into the field of digital citizenship, in both so-called democratic and so-called authoritarian states. The School will focus particularly on how the interactions between individuals or communities […]
AfroLeadership, Open Data and the Right of Access to Information
Like Cameroon, many African countries do not have access to the information Act. There is no specific freedom of information law that requires public bodies to disclose information as well as to respond to requests for information. Civil society initiatives have been carried out to push the government to legislate on this issue, but very […]
WeParticipate : A Digital Plateform for Participatory Democracy
AfroLeadership designs and develops technological tools such as software and platforms dedicated to the implementation of the digital strategies of public and private institutions. It is in this capacity that AfroLeadership engineers have developed the WeParticipate digital platform, based on the Decidim open source code and made up of several integrated Ruby On Rails gems. […]
Smart Cities – AfroLeadership as an enabler to enhance Good Governance in Africa
A smart city uses information and communication technology (ICT) to improve operational efficiency, share information with the public and provide a better quality of government service and citizen welfare. The main goal of a smart city is to optimize city functions and promote economic growth while also improving the quality of life for citizens by […]
Artificial Intelligence: AfroLeadership–AFRIA Partnership / Governance
(14.01.2022). Following fruitful exchanges and joint operations carried out during 2021, the Francophone Agency for Artificial Intelligence (AFRIA) and AfroLeadership signed a partnership agreement to formalize a high value-added collaboration for the African continent. The agreement extends over a renewable period of two years. All the provisions of the agreement are detailed across five pages, […]
Transparency: Afroleadership’s work recognised by The Africa Report
In the field of open data, it is difficult to find a Francophone African actor. Afroleadership is on its way to breaking this glass ceiling. In a publication dated November 17, 2021, the highly influential “The Africa Report” cited Charlie Martial Ngounou, President of Afroleadership, as one of the leading activists in transparency on the […]