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PROGRAMMING KEY:
Contents noted with #WS are Parallel Session.
Contents noted with #PS are Plenary Sessions.
Thursday, November 26 • 11:40am - 1:10pm
#PS 3: Creating a sustainable digital taxation regime in Africa

Zoom Link: https://afigf2020-org.zoom.us/j/89686681024?pwd=ZThIeHE1YVlJV2JOT09rL0JGRzl6UT09

To raise policy questions about the impact of retrogressive end user taxes on objectives of affordable universal access and to ask who should bear the onus of paying for Internet taxes. How do such taxes impact digital inclusion, human rights, and socio-economic developments? How the reforms of the international tax regime (BEPS) that include the global digital tax might contribute to national tax bases not only realisation of global public goods (such as Internet, cybersecurity and data) at the national level, but to increased demand for social, labour and consumer protection from the state, as a result of globalised processes of digitalisation and datafication.

Moderators
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Gillwald Alison

Executive Director, Research ICT Africa
Alison Gillwald (PhD) is the Executive Director of Research ICT Africa (RIA), an African digitalpolicy and regulatory think-tank that works across 20 African countries. She is also adjunct-professor at the University of Cape Town’s Nelson Mandela School of Public Governancewhere... Read More →

Speakers
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Juliet Nanfunka

Researcher, Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa
Juliet Nanfuka is interested in the intersection of society, policy and technology.
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Linda Bonyo

CEO, Lawyers Hub
Linda Bonyo founded the Nairobi-based Lawyers Hub in 2017 as a Pan-African network of lawyers advising on digital policy and using tech policy for startups across the continent. Through events such as the annual Africa Law Tech Festival, her network of Africa-focused tech lawyers... Read More →
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Logan Wort

African Taxation Administration Forum (ATAF)
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Taylor Reynolds

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
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Felleng Sekha

Legal and Regulatory Affairs, MTN Group Executive
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Raymond Onohua

Tech Policy Fellow, Lagos Business School
Raymond Onuoha is a Research and Teaching Fellow at the Lagos Business School (LBS) Nigeria, where his research focuses on the strategic and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a special focus on Sub-Saharan... Read More →

Rapporteurs
avatar for Shamira Ahmed

Shamira Ahmed

Senior Economist, Research ICT Africa
Shamira is a seasoned trade and development economist. She has a versatile skill set and broad research expertise,which she gained from working as a research consultant at a multinational consultancy firm, as a trade economist in the public sector, and in her current role as senior... Read More →


Thursday November 26, 2020 11:40am - 1:10pm GMT
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