Chad validates a national plan that treats data as a sovereign asset
A workshop in N'Djamena has signed off a seven-part data governance strategy, with sharing, infrastructure and a data economy on the list.
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On 7 October 2026, Chad's government and the UN Economic Commission for Africa held a national workshop in N'Djamena to validate the country's National Data Governance Strategy. About 50 people took part, from government, regulators, business, universities, civil society and development partners. The telecoms and digital minister said the aim is to make data a strategic national asset that supports the modernisation of the State.
The strategy rests on seven pillars. They cover institutional governance, the legal framework, data quality and interoperability, data infrastructure, sharing and access, security and personal data protection, skills, and the data economy and innovation. Priority uses include a single digital window, health, education, mining and petroleum, agriculture, livestock and fisheries, and telecoms.
The Commission says the step opens an implementation phase, and that the strategy must be sustainably financed. The page gives no budget or dates. For people who own or use data, the signal is in the pillars: a legal base, a sharing and access layer and a data economy are written into one national plan. The detail of who may hold, share and sell which data is still to come.
