Nigeria, Sept. 30 -- Africa's digital economy is expanding across borders faster than many of the rules governing it. A cloud platform can serve customers in several countries without building a separate digital ecosystem in each one. Artificial intelligence can be developed in one market, hosted in another and deployed across several more. Data centres can support businesses far beyond the countries where they are located.

Regulation, however, remains largely organised around national and sectoral boundaries.

That contradiction is becoming harder to ignore as Africa moves deeper into cloud computing, artificial intelligence and large-scale digital infrastructure. At the ITW Data Cloud Africa 2026 event in Nairobi, Kenya, the Director G...