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Kitsoft, an international GovTech company with Ukrainian roots, and the Smart Africa Secretariat have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on public sector digital transformation.
The cooperation will focus on three key areas – Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI), e-governance, and artificial intelligence. Kitsoft and Smart Africa plan to exchange practical experience in digital government, hold joint expert and educational sessions, and develop cooperation on building digital public services using low-code technologies.
Smart Africa brings together 42 African countries and works to advance the continent’s digital transformation and the development of a single digital market. The Alliance provides a platform for cooperation between governments, technology companies, and international organisations, enabling countries to exchange experience and jointly develop digital solutions.
African countries today face the major task of digital transformation, and for us, this partnership is first and foremost about sharing practical experience. Ukraine has come a long way in digitalising public services and continues to develop them even amid the full-scale war and constant cyberattacks. This experience has shown how important it is for governments to have the technology and capacity to independently build, scale, and develop their digital services. This is the experience and the approaches we are ready to share through our cooperation with Smart Africa,
said Oleksandr Iefremov, CEO of Kitsoft.
For Smart Africa, such knowledge exchange is an opportunity to strengthen the technological capabilities of African countries and reinforce their digital sovereignty.
Africa’s digital transformation must be built on ownership, capacity and solutions that respond to our own realities. This partnership with Kitsoft is an opportunity to turn global experience into practical value for our Member States, strengthening their ability to build and scale trusted digital public services while maintaining digital sovereignty. Through cooperation on Digital Public Infrastructure, e-governance and AI, we want to accelerate a transformation that is not only digital, but truly African-led and sustainable.
said Lacina Koné, Director General and CEO, Smart Africa.
As part of its cooperation with Smart Africa, Kitsoft will share its experience in using low-code technology to build digital public services. Liquio, Kitsoft’s low-code platform, operates at the national level in Ukraine and is battle-tested under the extreme conditions of the full-scale war, including large-scale DDoS attacks. The platform enables governments to rapidly build and scale digital public services.
The open-source Liquio Community Edition enables governments to deploy the platform on their own infrastructure, adapt it to their needs, and independently develop digital public services. This approach can be particularly relevant for countries building their own digital infrastructure while seeking to maintain digital sovereignty.
Smart Africa is an alliance of African countries, international organizations, and global private sector players tasked with driving Africa’s digital agenda. Launched in 2013, Smart Africa is empowered by a bold commitment by African Heads of State to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development on the continent through affordable access to broadband and ICT. Today, the Alliance brings together 42 member countries, representing over 1.2 billion people and over 50 private sector members, with a vision to create a Single Digital Market in Africa by 2030.
Kitsoft is an international GovTech company with Ukrainian roots and more than 12 years of experience in digital government transformation. The company specialises in digital public services and large-scale government platforms and has contributed to the development of more than 250 digital public services. Kitsoft built the technical foundation of the Diia platform — one of the flagship products of Ukraine’s globally recognised digital transformation — and its national AI assistant, Diia.AI, the world’s first national AI assistant for public services.
With offices in Belgium and Germany, Kitsoft works with governments and international partners across Europe and Africa.
