AI and Digital Governance Politics and Management: A View from the Global South

Working Paper Series

The Tayarisha African Governance in the Digital Age working paper series, supported by the Hans Seidel Foundation, sets out to explore some of these questions.

The Tayarisha Digital Governance Working Paper Series explores themes and nuances of digital governance from an African perspective. Taking its starting point in Africa and in a different set of assumptions about the state, its institutions, the market, and its actors, the series moves beyond biased, binary, and narrow debates to examine the complex realities shaping the continent's digital transformation.

Volume 2

AI and Digital Governance Politics and Management: A View from the Global South, supported by the IDRC  and Ai4D Programme.

Afinowi, Taiwo (2026). Digital Transformation and Governance within the Context of Africa's Development: A Bibliometric and Systematic Review

Bar, Ariane (2026). Algorithmic Apartheid: Artificial Intelligence, Governance and Civil Rights in Palestine

Bonami, Beatrice & Ndiaye, Seydina Moussa (2026). Addressing Global Southern Data Scarcity: A Review from African Data Policies

Gebreselassie, Marrian Haileselassie (2026). OSINT: The Future of Protecting Human Rights?

Gwaka, Leon Tinashe (2026). Visions and Voids: A Descriptive Examination of Digital Policy Contradictions and Digital Inclusion Gaps in the Global South

Isidore Arnaud, Essomba, Mbang Kingue Jean, Bang & Muma Bih, Yvonne (2026). The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Transformation for Public Administration in CEMAC: A Critical Analysis

Kante, Mady Ibrahim & Noutcha Issoy, Lubiche Prudence (2026). Impact of Civil Society and Social Movements on Digital Policies in the Sahel

Klaaren, Jonathan & Costa, Janaina (2026). Can Identity Deliver Digitally? A Southern African exploration with particular attention to South Africa and Mozambique

Malindini, Kholiswa (2026). AI Governance in Developing Economies: Balancing Growth, Sovereignty, and Inequality

Maisiri, James, Maisiri, Leroy & Mbalaka, Blessing (2026). Governing AI from Below: An Ubuntu-Anarchist Critique of State-Led Digital Transformation in Africa

Makhubo, Qhakazile Angel & Green, Tshidi (2026). Let them eat AI: An examination of the opportunity cost of digitalization in Southern Africa

Ndzana, Jean Yves (2026). Rivalry in code: the geopolitics of AI governance in the Global South and the struggle for normative influence in Africa

Okolo, Chinasa T. (2026). Advancing Global Inclusion in International AI Cooperation

Razzano, Gabriella (2026). Unpacking a normative driven approach for African AI Governance, and exploring its application

Riany, Kenneth (2026). Algorithmic Bias in AI Governance: Strategies for Promoting Data Sovereignty in Kenya’s Public Service Delivery

Varghese, Ashwin (2026). E-Governance and the Kerala Model: Unpacking the Changing Dynamics of Dependency and Discretion

More on the Tayarisha: https://www.wits.ac.za/tayarisha/