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Co-Develop Survey reveals DPI could unlock Africa's next generation of entrepreneurs
The Ipsos online survey spanned Ethiopia , Kenya , Nigeria , South Africa , Tanzania , and Uganda , exploring how people experience and perceive DPI, and what that means for business growth, trade, and employment opportunities.
"These survey findings reveal what we have long believed: trust is the foundation on which everything else builds. When 82% say they will share data if they understand what is being shared and why, they are setting the terms; transparency, agency, and proven safeguards. Countries are making critical infrastructure decisions right now that will shape digital participation for decades. The question isn't whether to build digital systems, but how to build them as foundational public infrastructure that works for everyone. At Co-Develop, we work as bridge-builders to ensure Africa builds DPI that reflects African priorities and protects African citizens. People are ready. Now we must prove we can deliver infrastructure that lives up to their trust."
refers to foundational, re-usable digital building blocks – such as digital payments, ID, and data sharing – designed for the public benefit.
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This release references the combined country average from the six markets surveyed after the individual markets' results are weighted in the combined data to give equal share to each. The findings are drawn from an online Ipsos survey, conducted on behalf of Brunswick Group for Co-Develop, of an urban representative sample of online adults aged 16-65 in South Africa ( =1,000), aged 16-60 in Nigeria and Kenya ( =1,000 per market), and aged 16-50 in Uganda , Ethiopia , and Tanzania ( =500 in each of these three markets). Fieldwork took place October 3 – October 18 , 2025. In each market, the sample obtained is representative of the population with quotas on age, gender, region, and working status. The data has been weighted to the known offline population proportions for age within gender, region, and working status, to reflect the adult populations of each market.
Co-Develop is a global nonprofit fund accelerating the adoption of safe and inclusive shared digital public infrastructure (DPI) at scale. Answering the call to promote the deployment of DPI in 50 countries building DPI in the next five years, Co-Develop makes strategic investments to unlock bottlenecks in safe and inclusive DPI adoption by countries and build an evidence base to understand the impact of DPI. More information here: https://www.codevelop.fund/.
The Global DPI Summit is the largest convening on digital public infrastructure that brings together key stakeholders in the global DPI community across the public, private, and civil society sectors. It showcases the progress that countries are making in leveraging DPI thinking, the breadth and depth of the ecosystem, and the potential partnerships that countries can draw upon for their implementation journeys. More information here: https://www.globaldpisummit.org/.
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