(IST-Africa 2023 Conference, 2023-05-05) Adam A . Alli; Fahadi MUGIGAYI; Juma KASADHA; WALUSANSA Y. Yahya
As oil and electricity shaped prospects of many developed economies in
the previous centuries, the information age is shaped by big data analytics and
artificial intelligence-related mechanisms to propel future economies. Big Data
analytics provide a bountiful platform of real-time facts derived from data
accumulated from the government’s information and communications technologies
(ICTs). In this paper, we reflect on the opportunities big data creates in reconceptualizing
governance in Africa’s developing democracies. Through wellstructured
systematic literature survey, we explore the applications and adaptability
of big data in developing democracies and their structures of governance. We
connote that governments are likely to create significant value from structured, semistructured
and unstructured big data that appear naturally because of using respective
ICTs governance through a big data lens. This value is in terms of inclusive egovernance,
provision of government services among others.
