About DPO Africa Network
About DPO Africa Network

Your work shapes trust.
Your ambition belongs here.

If you are responsible for protecting personal data—and determined to grow your capability, influence and career—there is a place for you in DPO Africa Network.

Connect your responsibility with opportunity. Learn, exchange experience and contribute to stronger practice across Africa.

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Why We Exist

Africa’s digital economy needs people who can build trust.

Data protection shapes access, opportunity and confidence. We connect professional capability, organizational needs and institutional perspectives to strengthen practice across Africa.

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Our Mission

The network we are building.

To build Africa’s most influential network of data protection professionals, driving collaboration, innovation, and excellence in privacy practices across the continent.

Our Vision

The future we work toward.

To position Africa as a global leader in data privacy, where ethical innovation, personal rights, and digital trust are seamlessly integrated to empower a thriving digital economy.

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The Value of Connection

A network enriched by its people.

Practitioner experience sharpens learning. Organizational challenges bring new perspectives. Regulatory dialogue connects expectations with implementation.

Each connection deepens understanding and creates opportunities to contribute and grow.

Everyone has something to gain—and something to contribute.
Our Core Values

ARISE guides how we work.

A

Accountability

Take responsibility for commitments and communicate with clarity and transparency.

R

Resilience

Keep learning and adapting as professional demands and digital environments change.

I

Innovation

Develop useful approaches to learning, collaboration and practical problem-solving.

S

Solidarity

Share experience and strengthen connections across countries and disciplines.

E

Excellence

Bring care, rigor and a commitment to improvement to our work.

Our Organizational Model

Clear direction.
Professional insight. Shared contribution.

Our structure connects leadership, community delivery and professional guidance.

Leadership & Operations

Strategic direction and coordination of programmes, partnerships, member experience and delivery.

Volunteers & Contributors

Skills and experience supporting events, editorial work, community engagement and operations.

Become a Volunteer →

Councils

Advisory: strategic and institutional perspectives.
Practitioner: experience from the realities of practice.
Ethics & Professional Conduct: professional expectations and conduct.

Amaka Ibeji
Our Founder

Amaka Ibeji

Digital Trust Advisor • Corporate Governance Leader
Independent Non-Executive Director

Amaka founded DPO Africa to widen access to the knowledge, relationships and opportunities that help professionals advance and strengthen Africa’s digital economy.

Her work connects privacy, AI and corporate governance with organizational implementation and boardroom accountability.

Her vision connects professional opportunity with a digital economy worthy of trust.

1,000+
Practitioners trained and counting
Recognition
  • 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics · 2025
  • Most Exceptional Privacy & Data Protection Personality of the Year · 2025
  • Most Influential Women Leaders to Watch · 2026
Where We Are Headed

More access.
Stronger capability.
Lasting influence.

We are deepening the connections that help people advance and organizations act with confidence.

Our growth is guided by community needs, professional quality and the ambition to strengthen Africa’s digital economy.

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Bring your ambition.
Help shape what comes next.

Strengthening your practice, advancing your career or developing your organization’s capability? You belong in the conversation.

Connect. Learn. Grow.