International Digital Dialogues
The International Digital Dialogues promote internationally aligned digital policies through close cooperation between Germany and its partner countries. This creates reliable conditions for innovation, market access and cross-border digital business.
Germany conducts bilateral Digital Dialogues with strategic partner countries worldwide, including Brazil, Canada, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Kenya, Mexico, the Republic of Korea, Singapore and the United Kingdom. The dialogues bring together policy makers, businesses and academia to jointly address digital policy issues such as data governance, emerging technologies, digital government and the digital economy.
In practical collaboration formats, the International Digital Dialogues turn dialogue into concrete outcomes, such as policy recommendations and joint pilot projects. Participants also benefit from early insights into digital policy developments and direct exchange with public institutions.
Commissioned by the German Federal Ministry for Digital Transformation and Government Modernisation (BMDS), the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH supports cooperation activities by coordinating meetings and working groups, and serving as a central contact point for engagement.
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Kenya
Kenyan IT talent and European demand: building new partnerships for digital services
While European companies debate the effects of AI adoption on talent shortages, a delegation of Kenyan IT companies made a direct pitch: the skilled talent and services many European businesses are looking for already exist – in Nairobi. These talents cannot only fill junior roles but are increasingly skilled and adapt to the changing work environments of AI.
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Kenya
Connected against harm: A Kenyan-German exchange on tech-facilitated gender-based violence
The Kenyan-German Digital Dialogue hosts a series of exchanges with KICTANet, a Kenyan think tank, and the Federal Association of Women's Counseling Centers and Women's Emergency Hotlines in Germany (bff). The exchanges are dedicated to mutual learning and collaboration on the mitigation of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) in Kenya and Germany.
Kenya
Open-source cooperation: turning policy dialogue into concrete partnership opportunities in Nairobi
Together with the Digital Transformation Center Kenya, the Secretariat for the Kenyan-German Digital Dialogue organised a high-level delegation visit of seven German and European digital, cloud, open-source, and outsourcing companies to Kenya. The key outcome of the mission: the identification of concrete areas for collaboration in the open-source ecosystem and in IT talent sourcing.
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Do you want to take part?
We welcome every engagement. Through the International Digital Dialogues, governments and authorities from Germany and its partner countries meet with various business associations, companies and research institutions. Interested parties can get directly involved in the government dialogues by proposing topics for cooperation or working on current challenges in working groups. A secretariat ensures that the most important questions and issues relating to digital policy are addressed and resolved. Do you have a question, an idea or a suggestion? Get in touch with us!
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