Data protection and privacy regulation in most, or even all, African countries are often less mature – particularly when compared to the EU’s General Data Protection (GDPR) regime. As such, economies on the continent present both risks and opportunities when it comes to data.

At the recent Africa Tech Summit
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By Florence Guthfreund-Roland & Mathilde Hallé

By June 17, 2015, all African countries should have completed the transition from analogical to digital radio transmission of TV and radio signals.

This deadline was set by the Regional Conference of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) in the 2006 Geneva Agreement (GE-06). The
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