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Location: Nairobi
Dates: 10 – 11 March 2026
CIPESA is participating in the 2nd East Africa Data Governance Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya, on March 10 and 11, 2026, convened under the theme ‘Navigating Duality in Data Governance: Innovation and Accountability in East Africa’.
Innovation and accountability are often treated as competing imperatives. In reality, they must evolve together. The 2026 theme focuses on the duality that defines East Africa’s digital moment: a region building new systems of data-driven governance while grappling with heightened concerns around privacy, power, surveillance, exclusion, and fragmentation. The conference explores how East Africa can build digital governance ecosystems that enable innovation without sacrificing justice, rights, or public trust.
The conference features sessions on regulatory sandboxes as governance instruments for DPI – a space of active interest to CIPESA as we develop our thinking on rights-centred approaches to digital infrastructure governance in East Africa.