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Central African Republic launches digital platform to modernise public administration
The Dûnîa platform digitises ministry operations for the first time, supporting economic governance, development planning and international partnerships.
The Central African Republic has taken a major step toward modernising its public administration with the launch of the Dûnîa digital platform. The initiative marks the first time an entire ministry has been fully digitised, covering both internal processes and collaboration with external partners.
The platform was developed on behalf of the Ministry of Economy, Planning and International Cooperation( MEPCI) and represents a structural shift in the governance of economic policy, development planning and international partnerships.
The official launch of the platform took place on February 23, 2026 under the patronage of the President of the Republic, Head of State, Professor Faustin Archange Touadera, and forms part of the National Development Plan( NDP-2024 – 2028).
Professor Richard Filakota, Minister of Economy, Planning and International Cooperation, said:“ Dûnîa is much more than just an e-government project. It is an integrated, modular and scalable digital platform that maps all of the ministry’ s administrative, operational and strategic processes. A strategic lever for development and digitalisation – and an important element of our Ambition28 programme.”
Through the platform, all HR and budget management processes within the Ministry of Economy are automated. Document management is handled entirely electronically, project management is digitally centralised, macroeconomic analyses are modelled based on data and international funding is tracked transparently.
The platform is built on an open-source microservices architecture with high resiliency( 99.8 % availability), encrypted data structure and API interoperability. This infrastructure enables the ministry to modernise administrative processes while improving transparency, efficiency and collaboration across government operations.
African Development Bank Group approves € 6.5 million investment to support technology start-ups
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank
Group has approved an investment of € 6.5 million in the Saviu II fund to support technology start-ups through their seed phase and first institutional fundraising, mainly in French-speaking Central and West Africa.
The Bank Group will invest € 4.5 million as equity and two million as a first-loss hedging tranche on behalf of the European Commission, under the Boost Africa Programme. The participation of the Bank Group will enable the Saviu II fund to give priority to companies with a strong technological or digital component.
Saviu II, the second investment vehicle of Saviu Partners, plans to invest between 500,000 and three million euros in about 20 technology or technology-oriented B2B start-ups in the seed phase or carrying out first institutional fundraising.
The Saviu II venture capital fund aims to make at least 60 % of its commitments in the French-speaking countries of West and Central Africa: Côte d’ Ivoire, Cameroon, Benin, Senegal, Togo, Burkina Faso and Mali. It can also co-invest in promising technology companies in East Africa that have a strong team and business model and whose strategy includes entering the market in French-speaking West African countries and establishing a strong presence there.
In addition, the fund will devote a dedicated envelope to preseed investments, focusing on minority equity investments, usually in co-investment with studios, incubators or other ecosystem partners.
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