Digital Frontiers

Digital Frontiers Digital Frontiers is an African nonprofit that strengthens people and institutions to drive inclusive development in the digital economy.

Digital Frontiers Institute offers exceptional learning experiences that equip individuals and teams with the capabilities, confidence and connections they need to drive inclusive digital transformation. Delivering learning experiences for Digital Frontiers. Visit our website for more information: https://digitalfrontiersinstitute.org/

01/10/2026

Trust isn't built with policy alone, it is also built with people who know how to apply it.
This November, strengthen your understanding of how consumer protection connects regulation, business strategy and customer experience, through Digital Frontiers Institute's four-week Consumer Protection course.

This course also includes two Live Virtual Sessions with our esteemed Technical Expert, Wisdom Alorwuse, along with fellow peers working across different countries, markets and contexts. These interactive sessions give participants the opportunity to explore real challenges, ask questions, exchange perspectives and connect what they are learning to their own work, with practical insights they can apply immediately.

Explore the course: https://ow.ly/eOzv50ZT47w

30/09/2026

The September edition of Further the Frontiers looks at the exciting Animation Studio Accelerator Programme, supported by the Government of Japan, in partnership with Digital Frontiers and the Triggerfish Foundation, and on behalf of the UNDP Timbuktoo Creatives Hub in Cape Town. This programme is designed to support growth-stage, founder-led African animation studios strengthen pathways to market, investment and sustainable growth.

This month, we also celebrate alumni taking on new roles, speaking at industry events and receiving recognition for their work. In Community Corner, Gerald Munyaradzi Nyakwawa explains why interoperability matters for financial inclusion in Zimbabwe.

You’ll also find details about our new course, Digital Public Infrastructure Essentials: The Identity Layer, our WhatsApp channel, and our on-demand session for Financial Inclusion Week 2026.

Read the September newsletter: https://ow.ly/x7hn50ZT2RT

Subscribe to our monthly newsletter to stay informed with the latest news and achievements by our alumni: https://ow.ly/mAJO50ZT2RU


Jackie Kitibiwa, Jeremy Quainoo, Shoukat Bizinjo, Gerald Munyaradzi Nyakwawa

Financial Inclusion Week 2026, hosted by Center for Financial Inclusion, brings together more than 300 expert speakers a...
28/09/2026

Financial Inclusion Week 2026, hosted by Center for Financial Inclusion, brings together more than 300 expert speakers and thousands of participants from around the world.

This year’s theme, “Inclusive Innovation: Building Financial Systems that Work for Everyone,” unpacks how practical solutions that can help expand opportunity and financial access for underserved populations globally.

Digital Frontiers is joining the conversation with our on-demand session, “What Happens When Risk-Based Supervision Moves from Theory to Practice?”

Register to watch our session now, and explore the wider programme ahead of October:
https://ow.ly/yYjA50ZSfUU

AI can answer a participant’s question in seconds. Knowing when that participant needs a conversation with a facilitator...
24/09/2026

AI can answer a participant’s question in seconds. Knowing when that participant needs a conversation with a facilitator takes a different kind of judgement.

That distinction sits at the heart of how we use AI at Digital Frontiers.

We see responsible AI as a way to strengthen human capability, not replace it. AI can help us reduce repetitive tasks, support course design, improve accessibility and give participants faster access to information. But the people behind our learning experiences remain essential.

Our facilitators and technical experts bring the mentorship and contextual insight that technology cannot provide. Every AI-supported output is reviewed by our teams, and final academic decisions remain with our learning facilitators and technical experts.

For us, responsible AI is not simply about what the technology can do. It is also about knowing where human expertise needs to lead.

Read the full blog to explore how we’re using AI across learning, content development and the participant experience, while keeping people at the centre.
https://ow.ly/JiTB50ZQXG0

We've recently launched our new Digital Public Infrastructure Essentials: The Identity Layer course.If this is your firs...
23/09/2026

We've recently launched our new Digital Public Infrastructure Essentials: The Identity Layer course.
If this is your first time hearing about it, take a closer look with our new blog exploring the questions behind digital identity systems within the DPI stack.
Our blog unpacks the learning outcomes, who the course was designed for and the key topics that will be covered. This course also features two live virtual sessions with our esteemed technical experts from the Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure.

Read the blog here:
https://ow.ly/zspI50ZQvZk

The next cohort begins on 26 October, in three weeks.

There is no single blueprint for digital identity. Countries around the world are taking different approaches- public, p...
21/09/2026

There is no single blueprint for digital identity. Countries around the world are taking different approaches- public, private, and hybrid models- all shaped by their own priorities, policies, and digital ecosystems.

So how do you determine which model is right? How do you evaluate digital ID schemes against international good practice? And how do you ensure they promote inclusion while protecting privacy, security, and user trust?

These are the questions explored in Digital Public Infrastructure Essentials: The Identity Layer, our brand-new course designed for professionals building, funding, regulating, and overseeing Digital Public Infrastructure.

The course also includes live sessions with technical experts from the Centre for Digital Public Infrastructure.
Over four weeks, you'll build the knowledge to:
✔ Understand digital identity, its core language and main concepts
✔ Compare leading digital ID models and how they fit within DPI
✔ Evaluate digital ID schemes against current good practice and safeguard frameworks
✔ Develop or critique digital identity strategies within your own context

📅 Starts: 26 October 2026
🎉Early Bird Offer is expiring soon! Enrol by 30 September 2026 and receive 20% off your course fee using code SAL_26DPI20ID

🔗Purchase this course and learn more: https://ow.ly/KqW650ZPAhQ

18/09/2026

Learning doesn’t happen on the Learning Platform alone.

An important part of the Digital Frontiers Institute learning experience happens live, in conversation with the people who are working in these fields every day.

Included in our course design are Live Virtual Sessions with our esteemed Technical Experts, bringing current, practical sector knowledge into the learning experience. These sessions are deliberately interactive, creating space for discussion, questions, polls, breakout activities and reflection rather than simply revisiting course content in a lecture-based environment.

Technical Experts help participants connect what they are learning to their own professional context, considering their sector, geography and level of experience. They create space to explore why the learning matters, how it applies in practice and what is happening in the sector right now. The sessions also offer an important opportunity for peer learning. Participants learn from the experiences and perspectives of others working in different countries, markets and contexts, often gaining new ways of thinking about challenges they are facing in their own work.

This exchange enriches the learning beyond what is available on the Learning Platform, giving participants practical insights and perspectives they can take back to their work and apply immediately.

Hear directly from our Technical Experts about what they bring to your learning journey below: https://youtube.com/shorts/Kt7_kseXzGM

17/09/2026

Recently, as part of our Risk-Based Supervision for Inclusive Digital Financial Services programme, Digital Frontiers hosted its first Risk-Based Supervision Global Exchange, bringing together 43 practitioners from six central banks and regulatory authorities across Africa and Pakistan.

The exchange created space for supervisors to share how they are approaching risk-based supervision in practice, including the use of SupTech, AML tools and data to inform supervisory decisions.

What emerged was a striking degree of commonality. While countries are at different stages in developing and implementing risk-based supervision, many of the questions and challenges practitioners are navigating are remarkably similar.

This is precisely why spaces for peer exchange matter. The value is not only in sharing knowledge, but in creating opportunities for practitioners to test ideas, compare approaches and learn from the experience of others working through similar challenges.

As Kauthar Conrad, who leads Digital Frontiers Institute’s Communities of Practice, explains: “Digital Frontiers' convening power is one of our most understated assets. Bringing practitioners together across institutions and borders is where real, lasting value gets created.”

Swipe through to explore some of the insights and conversations that emerged from the first Global Exchange.

If you are considering our new Risk Based Supervision for Inclusive Digital Financial Services Programme for your team, email us at [email protected]

Digital Frontiers has been selected to produce an on-demand video session for Financial Inclusion Week 2026. The recorde...
17/09/2026

Digital Frontiers has been selected to produce an on-demand video session for Financial Inclusion Week 2026. The recorded session is available to watch as soon as you register.
We brought together Kauthar Conrad, along with the esteemed Michael Eganza, Souraya Sbeih, and June Ruhweza, to discuss how supervisors can focus on risks and apply oversight proportionately while protecting consumers and helping more people access digital financial services.

Drawing on participants’ experiences in our new Risk-based Supervision for Inclusive Digital Financial Services Programme, the panel discussed how learning changed their inspection approaches and supervisory decisions. They also explored how exchanging experiences with fellow supervisors helped them apply their learning to their own work.

Register to watch our session, “What Happens When Risk-Based Supervision Moves from Theory to Practice?”

https://ow.ly/kyJV50ZOEkK

You might know the theory. The question is whether your skills are keeping up with where the industry's headed.This Octo...
15/09/2026

You might know the theory. The question is whether your skills are keeping up with where the industry's headed.

This October and November, we're running courses for professionals building more inclusive, trusted and resilient digital finance ecosystems.

Here's what makes them different: live virtual sessions with our Technical Experts. Real practitioners sharing what they're seeing and doing right now, not just what's in a textbook. You get to ask the questions that matter to you. Connect what you're learning to your own context. And hear how peers from different countries and institutions are tackling the same challenges you are.

Find the course that fits your goals: https://ow.ly/J8GX50ZNQeP

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