All you need to know about Africa Information Highway?

AIH is a mega network of open data platforms (ODPs) that electronically links all African countries and 16 regional organizations.

The African Information Highway (AIH) was developed by the AfDB's Department of Statistics as part of the Bank's statistical capacity building program (SCB) in Africa. AIH is a mega network of open data platforms (ODPs) that electronically links all African countries and 16 regional organizations.

The overall objective is to significantly increase public access to official and other statistics in Africa while supporting African countries to improve the quality, management, and dissemination of data. AIH responds to the decision of the African Union Summit 2012 that called on the AfDB, the African Commission and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa to help African countries to develop more efficient data management and dissemination systems.

The Bank launched the AIH the same year to support members as part of the AfDB's ongoing statistical capacity building program. The Bank is host to ODP and offers funds and training to improve and maintain.

Since the launch of the AIH, the Bank has expanded to include several thematic portals: energy, climate change, infrastructure, health, among others, providing a single window to capture and share development data in Africa.

The expansion program included a significant addition of SDGs data centers to facilitate monitoring of the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Africa.

It also includes a new portal system to meet the Bank's data needs to monitor the impact of its development interventions in African countries, and to ensure that they are coherent with its program of transformation of the High 5s program for Africa for the period 2015-2025.

(With inputs from AfDB)