Meet the AfricaLaw Tech Festival!

The increasing enactment of data privacy laws across Africa since the enactment of the GDPR in 2018 demonstrates the Brussels Effect in Africa with an increased proliferation of GDPR-like Data Protection laws and authorities in Africa. This shows the  Brussels Effect on digital policy. Artificial Intelligence has seen increased adoption across Africa, with Europe in discussions for an AI Act, the ripple effect will be seen in African policy and judicial systems in the months and years to come. As the Continent begins to form frameworks such as the Continental Data Policy Framework, the innovation policy framework and the digital economy framework; there is a need to have an audience with development agencies in Europe working together with continental bodies. There is also a need for policy makers, lawyers and startups to understand the context within which Europe makes its laws, by seeing their enabling infrastructure, tech ecosystem and policy processes to benchmark. This is why the African LawTech Festival is on tour this year learning about digital policies in Europe and is looking foward to meeting you at re:publica and discussing how new civil society alliances around digital policies can be formed between Africa and Europe! 

re:publica would like to thank its cooperation partner Robert Bosch Stiftung for making this session possible.