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Data sovereignty: Why East Africa must build its own AI future
Today, a founder with context can walk into a legal discussion asking precise questions instead of waiting passively. Not reckless questions, but informed ones.
For East Africa’s vision of the Silicon Savannah to be realised, our digital intelligence must be built on local foundations. The era of Cloud without Control, where sensitive African data is exported to the global north for processing, is meeting both technical and regulatory walls.
Kenya’s Data Protection Act, 2019 (DPA) has fundamentally changed the risk profile of AI for every senior executive in the region. We can no longer treat data residency as a box-ticking exercise.
