Introduction by Bill Anderson: “Digital transformations across Africa are becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of. Firstly because there is a lot going on. Secondly because there is a lot more information available. Thirdly because the dividing line in the narrative between bad news and good news is complex. Corpus is an attempt to overcome some of the obstacles experienced by researchers, analysts and writers across Africa in maintaining an up-to-date evidence base. It is offered to our community as a digital public good.
corpus, noun. a large, structured collection of written or spoken texts used for research and analysis
Corpus collects publicly available news and documents on digital transformation, digital public infrastructures and data governance covering the whole of Africa. As of today:
- It contains over 21,000 documents.
- Over 1,500 have been newly published this month.
- They are classified geographically by country and region.
- They are categorised into 38 topics.
- They are linked to 121 indicators.
It provides a suite of reports:
- A bulletin summarises yesterday’s news (updated every night).
- Monthly updates collate the daily updates for the past month.
- Country status reports assess the overall maturity of a country across the 38 topics.
- Country progress reports track developments for each of the 121 indicators over the past 12 months.
- Topic progress reports pivot the country data to report developments by country for each indicator.
- The catalogue allows you to filter and download a reading list for your specific purposes.
- Financial reports monitor all non-state investments. (A separate report on national budgets and expenditure is still under development.)…(More)”.
