Knowledge sharing in Africa: Perspectives on the future

The context for creating, sharing and accessing knowledge is rapidly changing at global and local levels as new technologies and approaches are introduced. These changes are driven and enabled by digital technologies, but who wins and who loses, and how do we ensure that development takes place in an equitable manner, and we move towards the kind of societies in Africa that citizens themselves would like to see ? This paper draws on the data from a horizon scanning study led by IDS, which used foresight methodologies and tools to explore future scenarios for knowledge sharing in Africa over the period to 2030 which corresponds with the timeframe for the Sustainable Development Goals. In particular, it sets out a range of `perspectives on the future' that were shared during the study, making use of the `7 questions' foresight tool.