Fourth Industrial Revolution
African Capacity Building Foundation
African Continental Free Trade Area
Artificial intelligence
African Union
African Union Commission
African Union Development Agency
Economic and Monetary Community of Central Africa
Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa
Development Assistance Committee
Disruptive agricultural technology
Digital Economy for Africa
East African Community
Economic Community of Central African States
Economic Community of West African States
European Union
Foreign direct investment
Financial technology
Gross domestic product
General data protection regulation
Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (German Corporation for International Cooperation)
Gross national income
Global System for Mobile Communications Association
Global value chain
Human-to-machine
Heavily indebted poor countries
International Bank for Reconstruction and Development
Information and communications technology
International Finance Corporation
International Labour Organization
International Monetary Fund
Internet of things
Intellectual property
Internet service provider
Information technology
Internet exchange point
Latin America and the Caribbean
Least developed country
Machine-to-machine
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprise
Official development assistance
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Person-to-person
Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa
Public-private partnership
Policy and Regulatory Initiative for Digital Africa
Regional Economic Community
Southern African Customs Union
Southern African Development Community
Special economic zone
Small and medium-sized enterprise
Science, technology, engineering and mathematics
Science, technology and innovation
Sahel and West Africa Club
Telecommunication company
Technical and vocational education and training
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
Value-added tax
Venture capital
West African Economic and Monetary Union
World Economic Forum
World Trade Organization