Digital competition policy and regulation in Africa

1. Provide a specialised economics-based introduction to digital competition policy and regulation, with emphasis on platforms, ecosystems, data, AI, digital infrastructure, digital media and online intermediation.
2. Develop professional capacity in African digital-market analysis by equipping participants to interpret market evidence, identify competition and regulatory problems, and formulate appropriate analytical questions.
3. Bridge economic theory and African policy practice by combining industrial organisation, innovation economics and regulatory-policy frameworks with African case studies, market inquiries and institutional materials.
4. Strengthen participants¿ ability to assess theories of harm and policy concerns in digital markets, including market power, exclusion, self-preferencing, data advantages, cloud lock-in, algorithmic conduct, platform dependence and ecosystem effects.
5. Build capacity for evidence-based policy advice by training participants to develop proportionate, context-sensitive and institutionally feasible recommendations for African competition authorities, regulators, policymakers, firms and professional advisers.
6. Promote awareness of developmental and public-interest dimensions of digital competition and regulation in Africa, including SME participation, media plurality, financial inclusion, infrastructure constraints, informality, local-language inclusion and digital capability-building.
7. Support professional communication and judgement through writing-based assessment, oral defence, reflective revision and public argumentation.