About

The NGFP Digital Futures Hub brings together African foresight practitioners and other experts exploring how data governance and emerging technologies can contribute to healthy, inclusive and locally grounded digital futures. Through strategic foresight, digital humanities and technological anthropology, the Hub examines how digital systems affect people and communities within their specific cultural and socioeconomic contexts. It challenges the assumption that technologies designed elsewhere should simply be adopted unchanged, and instead promotes innovation shaped by African knowledge, identities, needs and development priorities.

The Hub’s early work included the 2021 Future of Data Governance in Africa project, which brought together 22 NGFP members to identify signals and drivers of change, explore possible future scenarios and create artefacts from 2030. Building on this foundation, the Hub seeks to support education, dialogue, advocacy and collaboration among academics, practitioners, policymakers and communities. Its work helps participants anticipate digital transitions, prepare networks and institutions for technological change, and influence data and technology policy—contributing to a more inclusive digital ecosystem shaped with, rather than merely for, African communities.

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Passy Ogolla Amayo

Kenya | NGFP Africa Network Weaver & Advocacy Lead

Passy is SOIF’s African Network Weaver and a Programme Manager at the Society for International Development. Her work focuses on sustainable energy, climate action and futures thinking across Africa, including leading research, dialogue and policy engagement through the Sustainable Energy Futures for Eastern Africa programme. She is also active in youth climate and energy networks, helping connect emerging leaders with policy processes and opportunities to shape more sustainable futures. Connect with Passy.