The RAP Updates brings you the latest information, providing recent work that our RAP ambassadors are doing.
Regional Ambassadors Programme (RAP) Magazine
Masterclasses
The Civic Tech Innovation Network in partnership with GoVote, an initiative by Co-Creation Hub (CC Hub), introduces a series of workshops and masterclasses, which serves as a platform for the Regional Ambassadors Programme members to collaborate, educate and share the work that they do within the civic tech space. In this masterclass, Oluwaseun Adepoju, CC- Hub’s managing partner, explored the topic of elections and AI in the African context, focusing on the challenges and opportunities.
As part of our series of masterclasses with our Regional Ambassadors, our East African ambassador brings you this masterclass on Data Privacy & Protection. This masterclass makes the distinction between data protection and privacy, and underline the significance of privacy in today’s digital world. The discussion covers the risks associated with sharing personal information and stresses the necessity for individuals …read more
Articles
Navigating the World of Data Privacy and Protection: Insights from Data Protection and Privacy Masterclass
By Annex Kemanzi
With the increased use of online tools for school, work, and other activities, we are experiencing both opportunities and risks. While these tools offer easy access to information, error reduction, and automation, they also expose us to dangers such as stalking, data misuse, and harassment. This has led to massive amounts of personally identifiable data being collected both physically and digitally by governments, companies, and tech giants. In Africa, this has led to significant data exploitation by big data companies, raising critical questions about data protection and privacy. Many online users are left with the burden of protecting and regulating their data.
According to IBM, data protection involves safeguarding sensitive information from loss and corruption, ensuring its availability and compliance with regulatory requirements. Data privacy, on the other hand, is the principle that individuals should have control over their data, including how organisations collect, store, and use it…read more
RAP Regional Work
All our 5 RAPs are located in different regions and they are doing different work in order to promote the growth and development of their regions in the civic tech space. Some of the work includes the below:
Chad Innovation has launched a transformative training week to strengthen the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Chad.
Co-Creation HUB has an ongoing AI for Business Masterclass.
Pollicy will be hosting a dialogue series on Youth & Elections in Africa essay writing competition on the 25th of November 2024.