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.
Protecting privacy, consent, and bodily autonomy as technology reshapes reproductive health.
Inclusive, rights-based digital progress aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals.
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.
View the Case TrackerFrom 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.
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Examining cross-border health data governance with the University of Warwick across Kenya, South Africa, and Uganda.
Read article →Challenging the alleged commercial use of sensitive reproductive health data belonging to Ugandan users.
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Engaging young people in underserved urban communities to strengthen awareness of health data governance.
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