Public Policy and Technological Transformations in Africa

Chapter 1: Crafting Policy Technologies (PolicyTechs) from FinTechs, CivicTechs, GovTechs: An Introduction.- Part 1: TECHNOLOGIES AS PUBLIC POLICY TOOLS AND VENUES.- Chapter 2:  State Entrepreneurship in Africa: Realising digital transformation for Policy effectiveness in selected countries.- Chapter 3: Technological Leapfrogging and Innovation: Re-Imagining Evaluation Approaches and Practice in Africa.- Chapter 4: Digital Technologies, Data Commons and Rights in Africa: The Case of DigitalTransport4Africa.- Chapter 5: Biometric turn and the quest of public interest. Assessing the National Identification policy in Cameroon.- Chapter 6: Digital Participatory Budgeting and Policymaking in Botswana.- Part 2: TECHNOLOGIES NURTURING POLICY ENTREPRENEURSHIP AND PEFORMANCE.- Chapter 7: The Digital Economy and Youth Employment in Africa.- Chapter 8: Digitalisation of agricultural policy and policy performance in Tanzania.- Chapter 9: Information Technology, The Complexity of Joint Action, and Child Protection Policy implementation in Kenya.- Chapter 10: Mobilising and Securing Private Financial Flows from Digital Business Platforms and Curbing Tech Enabled IFFs to Finance SDGs in Africa.- Part 3: TECHNOLOGIES AS SPACES FOR CITIZEN PARTICIPATION.- Chapter 11: Strengthening citizen agencies in policymaking through Social media.- Chapter 12: Social media and public policymaking in Southern Africa.- Chapter 13: Technology-mediated Transparency, Accountability, and Participation in the realisation of Citizen-centred Health Interventions: Case Study of MobiSAfAIDS in Southern Africa.- Chapter 14: Digitalising Decentralisation Policy across regions in Africa.- Part 4: EMERGING CHALLENGES.- Chapter 15: Regulatory issues for the promotion of entrepreneurship in electronic money in the CEMAC sub-region.- Chapter 16: Ethical dilemmas in Public Innovations and ICT solutions during COVID-19 in Kenya.