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Foreword to 'EU-Africa Digital Partnership: Strategic Pathways through the Mattei Plan and Global Gateway'

Keijzer, Niels
External Publications (2026)

in: IAI (Hrsg.), EU-Africa Digital Partnership: Strategic Pathways through the Mattei Plan and Global Gateway, Rom: Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), 13-15

ISBN: 978-88-3365-864-3
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4458/8643

The five chapters in this edited volume offer a wide range of perspectives on Africa’s digital transformation and will leave the reader informed on today’s international cooperation possibilities and the remaining challenges. Besides being a valid and in itself, cooperation between Europe and Africa may also contribute to regulatory harmonisation which may help to deal with avoiding technological or software dependence on either China or the United States. While the historical irony of Africa and Europe engaging on such an endeavour should not be denied, there is today an enhanced acceptance of the need for technological integration and independence to go hand in hand while Africa seeks to ensure that digital technology contributes sustainably and equitably to its development.

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