14 June 2017 — The European Union has unveiled its new aid plan that will incorporate investment in digital infrastructure, as part of a digital focused development strategy that will also seek to extend the EU’s own norms on net neutrality and data privacy to Africa in particular.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has suggested that a set of common standards are needed for global digital interactions, on a similar basis to financial and trade agreements in the G20 and under the WTO...