- The National Insight presents to you African countries with most digitally advanced parliaments in 2024
Technology continues to shape every sector in the world, and Africa is no exception in adopting innovative ways of running programs. One of the biggest technological revolutions that created a global community without borders is social media. Two decades ago, the use of social media became a daily entrenched thing in people’s ways of interacting and communicating across the world.
A comprehensive assessment on the use of technology worldwide by the World E-Parliament Report 2024 unleashes the achievements and the future of parliaments in adopting technology. The report shows how the high-income economies have transformed their house businesses through technological advancements.
As it stands, the use of traditional broadcasting has been overtaken by social media, and this has given parliaments the flexibility and ease to communicate with citizens through social media platforms. Web communication has also shown a steady rise, despite the dominance of social media spaces.
One of the most adopted technologies in Africa is electronic voting in parliaments. This would require a reliable hardware infrastructure, which the report shows many parliaments offer to their members. The use of AI could change a lot, but it is the least adopted technology in Africa, with developed economies only using it for major tasks such as transcription and translation.
The report shows that North Africa has the lowest percentage of parliaments publishing audio or video from committee meetings (27%), while only 43% of Sub-Saharan African parliaments publish the text and status of draft legislation. Sub-Saharan has the lowest digital content and open data publishing policies in the region, at 32% and 29%, respectively.
South Africa and Ethiopia rank among the top 15 digitally mature parliamnets in terms of supporting users in parliemnt in the world. Both South Africa and Ethiopia have a digital maturity index of 8 and 2, respectively. In terms of infrastructure, South Africa and Morocco rank highest in Africa at 9 and 6, respectively.
Top 10 Digitally Advanced Parliaments in Africa 2024
Source: World E-Parliament Report 2024
