For the last two decades data protection regulatory models in the African continent were highly inspired by foreign ones - mostly by the European Union's models. Recently, regulatory diversions can be spotted - reaching from strict(er) regulation on data sovereignty and data localisation to hybrid data protection and data governance approaches. Against this background, this volume presents the proceedings of the conference on "African Data Protection Laws: Regulation, Policy, and Practice" held in Accra, Ghana in 2022. The contributions undertake deep dives into the data protection and data governance development on the African continent - providing insights by distinguished scholars and experts in the field and tackling current trends, laws, regulations, and policies. The contributions narrate the unique African journey and lay the ground for interdisciplinary informed policy decisions, guide stakeholders, and also provoke future research towards a potential Pan-African data (protection) governance framework in Africa.

This report identifies eight key data governance mechanisms to maximise benefits to patients and to societies from the collection, linkage and analysis of health data, and to minimise risks to both patient privacy and the security of health data.

There is no gain in highlighting the efficiency and productivity-enhancing benefits of digitalization Addressing the foregoing concerns lies in on the global economy, but some of the key balancing the opportunities and challenges from strategic advantages for African countries are the digital economy. [...] The Global In this paper, the authors attempt to provide South may end up merely serving as suppliers succinct, but comprehensive, initial discussions of data and importers of the digital products on some of the key data governance issues in developed from such data and remain stuck in the the context of African countries. [...] In the third and fourth sections The challenges posed by the digital economy (entitled "Making Competition and Antitrust for African countries is not limited to its Regulations Work for Africa" and "Adapting Assessing Digitalization and Data Governance Issues in Africa 3 African Taxation Systems to the Digital Economy," While the right to privacy is usually a respectively), the authors discuss and [...] But in order to instill confidence and data subject's rights are the right to be informed; the right to access; the right to rectification; the right to erasure; the right to restrict processing; trust in users as digitalization develops in Africa, the right to data portability; the right to object; and the right related to appropriate legal frameworks must be developed. [...] For example, the maximum desirable framework is one that grants the agency fine permissible by the laws varies from a low legal, financial and administrative autonomy, and of US$1,500 in Uganda to about US$10,500 in in which the agency only reports to Parliament, Ghana, to the highest fine of about US$50,000 in as is the case in Mauritius and South Africa.

A timely inquiry into how domestic politics and global health governance interact in Africa. Global health campaigns, development aid programs, and disaster relief groups have been criticized for falling into colonialist patterns, running roughshod over the local structure and authority of the countries in which they work. Far from powerless, however, African states play complex roles in health policy design and implementation. In Africa and Global Health Governance, Amy S. Patterson focuses on AIDS, the 2014–2015 Ebola outbreak, and noncommunicable diseases to demonstrate why and how African states accept, challenge, or remain ambivalent toward global health policies, structures, and norms. Employing in-depth analysis of media reports and global health data, Patterson also relies on interviews and focus-group discussions to give voice to the various agents operating within African health care systems, including donor representatives, state officials, NGOs, community-based groups, health activists, and patients. Showing the variety within broader patterns, this clearly written book demonstrates that Africa's role in global health governance is dynamic and not without agency. Patterson shows how, for example, African leaders engage with international groups, attempting to maintain their own leadership while securing the aid their people need. Her findings will benefit health and development practitioners, scholars, and students of global health governance and African politics.

This volume presents analyses of data protection systems and of 26 jurisdictions with data protection legislation in Africa, as well as additional selected countries without comprehensive data protection laws. In addition, it covers all sub-regional and regional data privacy policies in Africa. Apart from analysing data protection law, the book focuses on the socio-economic contexts, political settings and legal culture in which such laws developed and operate. It bases its analyses on the African legal culture and comparative international data privacy law. In Africa protection of personal data, the central preoccupation of data privacy laws, is on the policy agenda. The recently adopted African Union Cyber Security and Data Protection Convention 2014, which is the first and currently the only single treaty across the globe to address data protection outside Europe, serves as an illustration of such interest. In addition, there are data protection frameworks at sub-regional levels for West Africa, East Africa and Southern Africa. Similarly, laws on protection of personal data are increasingly being adopted at national plane. Yet despite these data privacy law reforms there is very little literature about data privacy law in Africa and its recent developments. This book fills that gap.