Africa Digital Rights Hub

The Africa Digital Rights Hub (ADRH) is a Ghana-based nonprofit “think and action tank” that promotes Pan-African research and capacity building on digital rights. Interested in the impact of digital technology on people living on the continent, the Hub brings together academic researchers, policymakers, regional and international bodies, and other stakeholders to address digital rights issues in Africa. ADRH brings a deliberately Pan-African mindset to its work, rooted in the African Union’s Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa, and prioritizes data protection and privacy as the most pressing issues in the space.. (Strategy: Evidence-Informed Policymaking)

The Africa Digital Rights Hub (ADRH) is a nonprofit think tank in Ghana that advances and promotes research and advocacy on digital rights issues across the African continent. The grant to the Africa Digital Rights’ Hub will support a research program on privacy and data protection with the aim of promoting creation and use of data protection and privacy protocols in Africa. This is important to the foundation’s goals under Evidence-Informed Policymaking because the current absence or weakness of policy and regulatory frameworks in Africa to govern use of data to balance innovation, data-driven decision making, and personal privacy is a threat to our ultimate goal — that governments use data to improve policies, programs, and outcomes for people.