Digital Developments

Democracy in the Digital Age: ODPC Sets New Rules for Handling Voters’ Data

As Kenya gradually shifts into election mode, another campaign season is taking shape behind the scenes. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner (ODPC) has issued Guidance Notes for Electoral Purposes, setting out how personal data should be collected, processed and protected throughout the electoral cycle. The guidance comes as political parties, candidates, campaign teams […]...

CBK Sets New Expectations for AI Risk Management in the Banking Sector

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how banks assess creditworthiness, detect fraud, interact with customers, monitor transactions, manage portfolios and make strategic decisions. As these syste...

19 Sep 2026

Safeguarding Privacy: Kenya Elevates Political Opinions & Trade Union Data to Sensitive Status

Kenya’s privacy framework is reaching a crucial milestone as the country aligns its domestic legal regime with international gold standards such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Reg...

31 Jul 2026

Beyond 2030: Kenya Must Now Chart a New Development Path

The goal of making Kenya an upper-middle-income economy by 2030 remains far from being realised. However, the shortcomings should not be interpreted as a failure of Vision 2030 but as an opportun...

31 Jul 2026

Vision 2030 Revisited: Hits, Misses and the Transition to Kenya’s Next Development Compact

Nearly two decades after its launch, Vision 2030 has reached an inflection point. As President William Ruto initiates a national conversation on Kenya’s next long-term development framework, th...

10 Jul 2026

How the Intellectual Property Bill Could Reshape Kenya’s Innovation Economy

For much of the 20th century, intellectual property law was concerned mainly with protection: rights created to reward inventors, encourage creativity and prevent misappropriation. Today, the m...

3 Jul 2026

Compliance or Punishment? Inside NTSA’s Tough New Era of Road Enforcement

Starting this month, the National Transport and Safety Authority (NTSA) has launched a major new road safety enforcement plan. The changes include instant traffic fines, yearly inspections for priva...

12 Jun 2026

Unpacking Kenya’s Data Marketplace Proposal: Privacy, Innovation and Public Trust

Few policy proposals in recent memory have generated as much public anxiety as reports that the Government of Kenya intends to “sell citizens’ data” through the proposed National Data Go...

5 Jun 2026

A Deep-Dive of the Draft Data Governance Policy, 2026

Kenya’s Draft National Data Governance Policy (NDGP) 2026 signals a significant evolution in the country’s digital policy framework. While Kenya’s data governance agenda has traditio...

22 May 2026

The AI Scramble: Africa’s Place in the Global Governance Order

The global contest over Artificial Intelligence (AI) governance is rapidly emerging as one of the defining political economy questions of the decade. Beneath the technical language of algorithms, stan...

8 May 2026

Solving for Trust: The New Technology & Digital Policy Conundrum

One of the defining themes that emerged from the Connected Africa Summit 2026 was the growing centrality of trust within Africa’s digital transformation agenda. The discussions reflected a clear evo...

17 Apr 2026

The Financial Consumer Protection Framework: Closing the Gaps in Kenya’s Digital Economy

For years, Kenya focused on getting citizens into the financial system, but now, Kenyans are posing a hard question: who is protecting them once they are in? From cash to mobile wallets, from bank que...

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