BiTA examines how big, small, and medium technology companies and governments operate across health, agriculture, finance, and development, and how their practices intersect with fundamental rights — the rights to health, privacy, expression, property, a decent environment, and development.
The programme holds technology and innovation actors accountable while promoting innovation that respects rights and justice, through research, public dialogue, strategic litigation, and multi-stakeholder advocacy.
Under BiTA, Ssekamwa Frank & 3 Others v Google LLC led to a landmark decision affirming that global technology companies are accountable to Uganda’s data protection law.
To hold technology companies and governments accountable to African human rights and data protection frameworks.
Users of digital services, regulators, policymakers, civil society, and communities across Africa.
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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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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