Digital Policies: Foundations for Africa

1. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
16th Annual IAD Summit
‘Access, Engage & Retain’
Digital Foundations, Policies for Africa
Sheraton Hotel, Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
March 20th – 21st 2018

2. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Digital Foundations, Policies for Africa
Andrew Rugege, ITU
Regional Director for Africa
International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

3. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
DigitalFoundation
ThePillars
A. Up-to-date, collaborative, light-touch regulation
B. Forward-looking, inclusive and innovative policies
C. National Broadband and other technology Plans
D. Investment in Internet Infrastructure
E. Evidence-based decision-making
F. Efficient and equitable use of Infrastructure
G. Optimization of frequency-use and timely issue of
spectrum
H. DATA

4. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Up-to-date, collaborative, light-touch regulation
• Review and update regulatory frameworks for
broadband
• benchmark and compare with international
best practices.
• Timely, collaborative, consistent and well-
enforced regulation developed in consultation
with industry and other stakeholders

5. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Forward-looking, inclusive and innovative policies
• Develop and enhance national broadband plans
• approaches for achieving affordable broadband
access
• aligning resources and policies within a country
• cross-sectoral collaboration, breaking down the
silos with other Ministries and other regulators

6. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Investment in Internet Infrastructure
• Investment-friendly regulations
• incentivize investment
• Recognition of the benefits broadband availability for
economic growth and a vibrant economy.
• Governments promoting competition to stimulate
investment
• provide financial support for broadband investments
through tax incentives, subsidized loans, universal
service grants and PPPs.

7. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Evidence-based decision-making
• Benchmark trends and developments in telecom and
ICTs
• Reliable data and indicators on ICT developments
• Statistical indicators essential to assess the impact of
broadband policies and to track progress towards
broadband goals and targets, such as the SDGs
• Identified Indicators and collect data to monitor
broadband infrastructure and access, prices and
affordability, and usage of services

8. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Efficient and equitable use of Infrastructure
Consider infrastructure-sharing
• open access approaches to infrastructure e.g. Local
Loop Unbundling (LLU), wholesale broadband
access, ducts and submarine cables
• Provided on fair, reasonable and equitable terms;
including the implementation of ‘Dig Once’ policies

9. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Optimization of frequency-use and timely issue of
spectrum
• Ensure radio spectrum availability based on open,
transparent and non-discriminatory procedures
• Harmonization efforts at Pan-African level of spectrum
licensing, spectrum pricing, spectrum refarming and
cross border frequency coordination
• Cooperate on treatment of harmful interference
• Migration from Analog to Digital TV; use 470-694 Hz
band and liberate the digital dividend, 700 & 800 MHz
bands for easier BB reach to rural areas

10. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
DATA Governance
Pope John Paul 2005 vs Pope Francis 2013

11. Programme Sponsor Headline Sponsor
Data Governance
Given the explosion of data, evaluate availability and adequacy
of:
• Resources (Human & Financial)
• Infrastructure
• Workflow
• Data Management
data collection, storage (IoT, Big Data, AI, etc.)
analytics
security, consumer and data protection
data sovereignty, Cross-border data transport and
storage
Resilience and data recovery