Advancing Data Justice in Africa through Just Data Value Creation
The wealth created from data-driven technologies are concentrated within a few countries and multinationals.
Africa, is not positioned to reap the digital dividends from the global data-driven digital economy. Advancing data justice in Africa is essential to ensure that the benefits of data-driven technologies are equitably distributed and do not perpetuate historical injustices, and persistent structural inequities.
In this policy brief , we focus on the six pillars of data justice, we further explore strategies for advancing data justice in Africa through the concept of just data value creation (JDVC)⸺Which can be summarised as a human centered approach to governing data as a factor of production.
The wealth created from data-driven technologies are concentrated within a few countries and multinationals.
Advancing data justice in Africa is essential to ensure that the benefits of data-driven technologies are equitably distributed and do not perpetuate historical injustices, and persistent structural inequities.
In this policy brief focus, we focus on the six pillars of data justice:
1. Power
2. Equity
3. Access
4. Identity
5. Participation, and
6. Knowledge
We further explore strategies for advancing data justice in Africa through the concept of just data value creation (JDVC)⸺Which can be summarised as a human centered approach to governing data as a factor of production.
This research is part of the DepHUB's ongoing work on "Promoting Digital Public Goods: Rethinking Data Governance and Responsible AI in Africa".
The policy brief can be found here: