Focus Areas
Your submission should fit at least one of these four areas. It can also cut across several.
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Local ownership and youth-led peace technologies
How African youth, peace practitioners, and affected communities can move from being end users to co-designers, governors, and long-term stewards of peace technologies.
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Governance, rights, and ethical guardrails
How to address surveillance, misinformation, data protection, algorithmic bias, digital exclusion, and political misuse in fragile and unequal settings.
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Policing, public safety, and accountability
How technology is reshaping state–citizen relations in security and policing, and what people-centered, rights-based alternatives and oversight tools look like in practice.
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Critical minerals, climate transition, and peace
How digital tools can support transparency, traceability, environmental justice, and community accountability in extractive economies that are increasingly central to Africa’s geopolitical and economic future.
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We welcome applicants who are moving beyond “tech for good” to engage with the hard questions of data governance, digital exclusion, and political economy. We strongly encourage applications led by women, rural youth, and innovators working in low-connectivity settings.