Dr Raymond Onuoha

Raymond Onuoha is a Technology Policy Fellow at Lagos Business School (LBS) in Nigeria. His research and teaching focus on the institutional and policy challenges facing the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a particular emphasis on sub-Saharan Africa. Dr Onuoha is currently an AfOx Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, as part of the Africa Oxford Visiting Fellowship Programme

Raymond works as a research consultant for global ICT policy and regulation think-tanks - Research ICT Africa (RIA), South Africa, IT4Change (India), and The Portulans Institute (Washington D.C., USA). He conducts multidisciplinary research on digital governance, policy and regulation, and the facilitation of evidence-based policy-making to improve access, use, and application of digital technologies for social and economic development in Africa. Raymond has consulted and served as an expert speaker and facilitator on technology policy for global and regional organizations, including the African Union Commission (AUC), Association for Progressive Communications (APC), Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Alliance for Financial Inclusion (AFI), International Labour Organisation (ILO), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF), UNESCO, Association of Computing Machinery (USA), Microsoft Nigeria, Internet Governance Forum (IGF), Collaboration on International ICT Policy in East and Southern Africa (CIPESA), Brazilian Network Information Center (NIC.br), and National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).

During his time at Oxford, Raymond will be working on a project that focuses on developing digital entrepreneurship within Africa's innovation ecosystem. Specifically, he will be investigating conceptual frameworks to examine the incremental knowledge development process related to Africa's digital entrepreneurial ecosystem. Raymond will also explore how indigenous and local knowledge can be more effectively integrated with foreign capabilities in the evolution of the region's digital innovation ecosystem. Ultimately, his goal is to propose alternative methods of aggregating incremental knowledge development to design an effective mechanism for integrating local indigenous knowledge with foreign capabilities in the evolution of the African digital entrepreneurial ecosystem.

• Onuoha, R.O. (2022). Africa’s Leading Lights: Regional Network Readiness for Digital Transformation. Published by The Portulans Institute, Washington D.C., USA. https://portulansinstitute.org/africas-leadinglights/
• David-West, O., Onuoha, R. & Caribou Digital. (2022). Platform Livelihoods and Young Women’s Economic Empowerment in Nigeria. Farnham, Surrey, United Kingdom: Caribou Digital Publishing, 2022. https://www.platformlivelihoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Nigeria-v4.pdf
• Onuoha, R.O. (2022). Digitalization and Labor in Africa: a regional snapshot for relevant social interventions. In NESG EPR Journal, Vol 20(1). https://nesgroup.org/download_resource_documents/EPR%20Journal%20H1%202022%20%282%29_16 56946244.pdf
• Onuoha, R.O. & Gillwald, A. (2022). Digital Taxation: can it contribute to more just resource mobilisation in post-pandemic reconstruction? RIA Digital New Deal for Africa Series, vol. policy paper#2. https://researchictafrica.net/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Digital-Taxation-can-it-contribute-to-morejust-resource-mobilisation-in-post-pandemic-reconstruction.pdf
• Tapiwa, C., Onuoha, R.O. & Mundia, K. (August 2021). Nigeria Report on Datafication and Digitalization: RIA survey finds gender inclusivity in Nigeria’s COVID response. Research ICT Africa Policy Brief 2021. https://researchictafrica.net/2021/08/27/ria-survey-finds-gender-inclusivity-in-nigerias-covid-response/