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AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol


Added by:   National contact point
Added on:   09 Jul 2025
Updated by:   OECD analyst
Updated on:   09 Jul 2025

The AfCFTA strives to create a more harmonized framework to promote Africa's digitalization and the development of digital-related industries and trade in digital products.

Name in original language

AfCFTA Digital Trade Protocol

Initiative overview

Promoting a transparent, secure, and trusted digital trade ecosystem is a major objective. It contains areas such as market access, facilitating digital trade, data governance, business and consumer trust, digital trade inclusion, emerging technologies, transparency on government regulation, and capacity building.

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