We promote social justice and rights-based digital transformation by generating evidence, strengthening capacity, advancing advocacy, fostering innovation, and undertaking strategic litigation that amplifies African voices.
Our aim is to ensure innovation advances human rights and social justice in health, SRHR, and sustainable development, leaving no one behind.
More About UsAn Africa where innovation advances human rights and digital justice in health, SRHR, and sustainable development.
To champion human rights and digital justice through research, advocacy, capacity strengthening, innovation, and strategic litigation.
To make digital justice the foundation of Africa’s digital transformation, protecting rights and improving lives.
An integrated approach that turns evidence and lived experience into law, policy, and lasting accountability.
Evidence and policy-relevant research promoting innovative African solutions.
Training, mentorship, and technical assistance that build empowered communities.
Strategic partnerships and grassroots movements for accountable technology.
Landmark cases and legal advocacy that establish precedent and accountability.
Shaping digital governance with the AU, African Commission, Africa CDC, and the UN.
Rights-based digital health governance so technology strengthens the right to health.
Digital technologies are transforming health systems across Africa through electronic health records, telemedicine, artificial intelligence, mobile health applications, wearable devices, and digital public health infrastructure. While these innovations offer unprecedented opportunities to improve access to quality healthcare, they also introduce complex challenges relating to privacy, health data governance, algorithmic bias, cybersecurity, cross-border data transfers, and accountability.
ADiJUST works to ensure digital transformation strengthens, rather than undermines, the right to health, promoting rights-based digital health governance through research, policy and legislative reform, strategic litigation, advocacy, and capacity strengthening.
Protecting privacy, consent, and bodily autonomy as technology reshapes reproductive health.
From menstrual health applications and fertility platforms to telemedicine and artificial intelligence, digital innovation has expanded access to sexual and reproductive healthcare while creating new risks relating to privacy, surveillance, discrimination, misinformation, and the misuse of sensitive personal data. These risks disproportionately affect women, young people, and marginalized communities.
Through research, advocacy, strategic litigation, policy engagement, and community empowerment, ADiJUST promotes frameworks that protect privacy, strengthen informed consent, promote equitable access, and ensure that digital technologies respect human dignity and bodily autonomy.
Inclusive, rights-based digital progress aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Digital transformation is reshaping every aspect of sustainable development, from education and healthcare to agriculture, climate action, financial inclusion, governance, and public service delivery. Yet digital progress is only meaningful when it is inclusive, rights-based, and responsive to Africa’s unique social, economic, and cultural realities.
ADiJUST works with governments, civil society, academia, the private sector, and communities to develop laws, policies, and governance frameworks that ensure digital technologies contribute to inclusive growth, environmental sustainability, social justice, and accountable institutions, so that Africa’s digital transformation leaves no one behind.
Flagship programmes advancing rights-based, African-led digital transformation. Select a programme to read more.
A rights-based, African-led vision of artificial intelligence that places human rights, digital justice, and public accountability at the centre of AI development.
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Examines how big, small, and medium tech companies and governments intersect with fundamental rights, holding technology actors accountable.
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Ensures digital transformation empowers, rather than excludes, Africa's most vulnerable: children, youth, women, and marginalized communities.
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Addresses governance challenges at the intersection of technology, digitalization, and sexual and reproductive health and rights in Africa.
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ADiJUST coordinates the DHGF in Uganda, a multi-stakeholder platform advancing digital health rights and justice across Africa.
A historic precedent affirming the jurisdiction of Uganda’s Personal Data Protection Office over multinational technology companies, ordering Google LLC to register and comply with Uganda’s data protection laws.
Within months, registrations by data handlers increased significantly, strengthening compliance and inspiring strategic litigation across Africa.
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From community dialogues to landmark courtrooms, our work begins with the lived experiences of the people technology affects most. We engage communities as partners, not subjects.
See Our ProjectsWe collaborate with universities, government, and civil society across Africa and beyond.
Our Executive Director joined the “From Data to Power” panel on how data is shaping and influencing African societies.
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What the 2019 Act means for consent, health data, and the rights of Ugandans.
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How the Ministry of Health’s 2024 guidelines standardise digital health and governance.
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