lisauwonkunda/eac-digital-governance-index

Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Readiness Index — Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania # Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) Readiness Index — Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania # A comparative scoring framework assessing Digital Public Infrastructure readiness across three East African countries, examining Kenya's market-led vs. Rwanda's state-led DPI development paths and evaluating which elements of each are realistically replicable for Tanzania. # Purpose # Scores each country on 12 sub-indicators across 4 dimensions: - infrastructure foundation, state capacity for digital governance, digital public stack maturity, and political economy/sustainability. - Rates each sub-indicator's transferability (high / conditional / low) — distinguishing outcomes that are policy-replicable from those tied to country-specific political or historical conditions. - Computes a capability score (current state) and ambition score (stated policy target) for each indicator, and derives the alignment gap between them. - Rolls indicator-level scores into a weighted composite index per country — the headline output of the model. # Key finding Tanzania shows the widest capability-ambition alignment gaps of the three countries, concentrated in digital public stack maturity (national ID coverage, government service digitization) rather than raw infrastructure. The transferability ratings suggest Tanzania can realistically adopt Kenya's market-led infrastructure approach (high transferability) but cannot simply replicate Rwanda's state-capacity outcomes (low/conditional transferability), since those depend on political-economy conditions specific to Rwanda's post-1994 settlement. **Full analysis and policy recommendations are in the 8-page policy brief**: DPI Readiness Index Policy Brief - Lisa Uwonkunda.pdf **Tableau Visualization can be found here**: public.tableau.com # Tech stack MySQL 8.0 · Excel (scoring framework workbook) · Word (policy brief)