Since January 2017, Research ICT Africa hosted the Regional Academic Network on IT Policy (RANITP), a network of African academics and researchers from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at Strathmore University, the Lagos Business School, and the Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design at the University of Dundee. Other institutions also involved in the project included the University of Zambia and the University of Ghana Business School.
RANITP was composed of a network of fellows from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe with support from Microsoft. The project aimed to promote high-level multidisciplinary research on ICT policy across the African continent and focused on providing the necessary evidence to inform policy processes on the implementation of cloud computing services in the public sector.
Preliminary results of the research were presented at the Outside Council Network/RANITP Summit, hosted at the Policy Innovation Centre of Strathmore University, Nairobi, in November 2017.
Project presentations
Zambia: Adoption and diffusion of cloud computing in the public sector
Ghana: Assimilation of cloud computing in the public sector
South Africa: Modernising the public sector through cloud
Nigeria: Public sector cloud services adoption
Kenya: Cloud-user perspectives
Kenya: Cloud-provider perspectives
AFRINIC: Investigating technical barriers to cloud services in Africa
Since January 2017, Research ICT Africa has been hosting the Regional Academic Network on IT Policy (RANITP) a network of African academics and researchers from the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law at Strathmore University. RANITP aims to promote high-level multidisciplinary research on IT policy across the continent.
In 2019 RANITP focused on researching evidence based Artificial Intelligence across the African continent. RANITP’s research on AI focuses on the thematic areas of AI and gender, AI and digital ID, AI ethics, and AI and data protection.
RANITP is composed of a network of fellows from Kenya, Nigeria, Uganda, South Africa and Zimbabwe and is supported by Microsoft.
Grace Mutung’u, RANITP Fellow
Focus: Digital ID, biometrics and AI
Datafication in Africa: the risks of Digital ID in SA and Kenya
Arthur Gwagwa, RANITP Fellow
Focus: AI and Ethics
Policy Brief – Recommendations on the inclusion of sub-Saharan Africa in global AI ethics
Raymond Onuoha, RANITP Fellow
Focus: AI, data protection and privacy policy harmonisation
Policy Brief – AI in Africa: regional data protection and privacy policy
Sarah Kiden, RANITP Fellow
Focus: AI and gender
Alex Comninos, Researcher and RANITP Coordinator
Focus: Artificial Intelligence, AI Readiness, emerging technology
