Digital trust infrastructure – backbone of Africa’s economic future

Digital trust is the invisible contract that lets people, businesses, and governments rely on digital systems for critical interactions. Without it, Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) – the shared digital rails for payments, identity and data exchange – cannot scale or deliver the economic and social value it promises.

DPI enables societies to operate digitally at scale – digital trust ensures these systems are secure, reliable, private, and governed fairly.

Digital trust generally is associated with an organisation’s ability to protect and defend against cyber threats. However, this should not be viewed as a siloed cybersecurity agenda or a technical add-on, but as business enabler for a trusted digital economy.

Digital trust in the context of DPI is about creating an ecosystem where government, businesses and citizens can exchange data securely and confidently. It comes down to knowing that the person or organisation you’re interacting with is who they claim to be, and that the data being exchanged is reliable.

DPI and the three pillars 

At the heart of DPI is a ‘set of foundational digital systems’, says the United Nations Development Programme, and these systems are designed to reduce the risk of fragmented trust. It is a practical framework that supports the development of digital trust at scale using modular solutions and proven strategies that are re-usable and relevant and avoid the risk of operating within, or creating, siloed systems.

There are three pillars within DPI…

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