Transform Africa Summit (TAS2023)

The Transform Africa Summit (TAS2023) took place for the sixth time this year. The venue was the Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. Government representatives, companies and organizations from over 100 countries met under the motto “Connect, Innovate, Transform”. The aim of the summit was to accelerate the digital transformation of the participating African countries. This is to pave the way toward competitive, agile, open and innovative smart societies.

Our policy initiatives were represented at TAS2023 with the following workshops:

• Digital for Development (D4D) Hub: ”Global Gateway: Building trusted connectivity between Africa and Europe”
• SADA & Gig Economy: ”Better policymaking for fair, safe, inclusive and sustainable digital transformation – The case of platform work”
• Data Economy: ”Building an Enabling Environment for Data-Driven Value Creation”
• GovStack: ”Digital Leaders Forum on Digital Public Infrastructure and Secure Data Flow”
• #SmartDevelopmentFund: ”Female Empowerment – the compass of the Twin Transition”
• FAIR Forward: ”Leveraging AI to adress climate change challenges in Africa”
• SADA: ”Network of Women Digital Ministers for inclusive digital policy and digital gender equality”