6,56kbit/s
Intl. bandwidth per capita at start
What changes for users: institutions connected, procedures that no longer require a journey, skills trained. And what is holding, when it is.
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Three efforts pursued together because none works alone: widening access to the network, giving the State a common digital foundation, and building the skills that will keep both running. Horizon 2029.
Network technologies are available and proven; what is missing are the conditions that make them viable to deploy. A territory of 2.3 million square kilometres, a dispersed population, partial electrification, and public systems designed independently of one another: each of these factors raises the cost of access or prevents its use. The project is anchored in the regional APM IDEA approach, which pools digital integration across Eastern and Southern Africa — because international capacity and transit corridors are negotiated at regional, not national, scale.
An infrastructure project is judged not by what it installs, but by what it makes possible — and by what it stops imposing. Here, sector by sector, is today's constraint and the precise mechanism that lifts it.
The same supporting document is demanded at every counter, because no office can check what the neighbouring office holds. The burden of proof falls on the user.
Information the administration already holds is checked at source, system to system. What is still asked of the user is what the State does not know.
Access to resources depends on scarce physical copies and shared bandwidth, where the campus is connected at all. Knowledge travels at the speed of paper.
A connected institution opens the same collections to all its students, at the same time, whatever the province.
The market ends where physical travel ends, and cash payment leaves no record usable to obtain credit.
Remote selling widens the customer base, and payment history becomes an asset: evidence of activity that a lender can rely on.
The patient's history stays in the facility where it was written. A transfer, an epidemic or a population movement erases the medical record.
A reliable identifier and a remotely accessible record make that history portable, and allow specialist advice without moving the patient.
Without verifiable identity, opening an account runs into know-your-customer obligations: exclusion is regulatory as much as economic.
An inclusive digital identity removes that entry barrier, making saving, payment and, progressively, credit possible.
Low density and energy costs place these areas below the profitability threshold for a commercial rollout: the network stops there, lastingly.
Targeted deployment support and adapted energy solutions move that threshold, making coverage sustainable where it was not.
Fewer documents to gather and fewer journeys — provided public registries can talk to each other and a reliable identity exists.
Technical pathways aligned with the trades that are hiring, in equipped and connected institutions — a qualification is worth the signal it sends to employers.
A share that is tracked and reported, in training as in entrepreneurship: inclusion is a measured target, not a stated intention.
Financing released as milestones are met, and equipment pooled in innovation centres rather than bought alone.
Coverage where commercial logic does not lead, and prior consultation where works cross their land.
Shared building blocks — identity, data exchange, hosting, security — that spare each ministry from rebuilding the same functions.
The project is split into five strands, each with its own page: scope, objectives, flagship projects and lead.
Orders of magnitude drawn from the project's results framework. These ambitions guide implementation; they are reviewed periodically with partners and do not constitute a guarantee of results.
Bid for a contract, follow progress province by province, or report a difficulty: each of these doors is open and traceable.