Nigeria calls on Africa to adopt tech to increase accountability and trust
Kashifu Abdullah, head of Nigeria’s IT development agency, believes that Africa’s governments must shift to deploying Digital Public Infrastructure and building citizen trust, rather than focus on ‘command and control’.
Tamsin Mackay
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