ADF grants $1.5 mn to strengthen e-com policy environment in Africa

The Smart Africa Alliance is an alliance of 32 African countries, international organisations and global corporations with a vision to create a single digital market in Africa by 2030. 

The project will cover Ivory Coast, Benin, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, South Sudan, Zimbabwe, The Republic of Congo, Sao Tome and Principe, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Smart Africa will consult public and private sector actors to develop an online training program that will directly benefit 600 stakeholders (comprising of government officials, small and medium enterprises, private sector mobile network operators) and indirectly benefit another 2,500, an AfDB press release said. 

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