Africahied African STI Intelligence Platform
The flagship application configured on Africahied — the digital public infrastructure for African science, technology and innovation. A continental platform to plan, monitor, benchmark and accelerate STISA-2034, designed to complement and strengthen ASTII and existing member-state systems, not replace them.
Priorities at a glance
Milestone pace by STISA-2034 pillar.
Fastest-moving states
Largest year-on-year readiness gains.
Latest continental signals
New policies, grants and evidence across the corpus.
One connected model of Africa's STI system
Not separate dashboards — a single linked model, from the continent down to individual research outputs and back up to development impact. This is the connective layer every module reads from. Tap a layer to open it.
Which countries are progressing
Benchmark every member state's STISA-2034 readiness — policy, R&D investment, output, ecosystem and year-on-year progress. Tap a country for its national dashboard.
Implementation monitoring, by priority
The platform's backbone: progress by priority, milestone, indicator and responsible institution — with the evidence behind it, the current bottleneck, and a recommended action. Tap a priority to open it.
Where the next R&D dollar earns the most
Each STISA-2034 priority linked to African evidence, its driver, and a clear Invest / Stage / Redirect call — so continental capital flows to the best-evidenced, most execution-ready priorities.
The continent's knowledge system, made legible
Research, researchers, institutions, collaboration networks and knowledge flows — through to innovation and commercialisation. The African-owned evidence layer that every other module reads from, built on Africahied's indexed corpus.
Research strength by field
Indicative output & impact index.
Leading institutions
By indexed output.
Collaboration network
Cross-country co-authorship, a health-research slice.
Researcher intelligence
Profile, output and collaboration reach.
What Africa is missing — and where it's ready to move
Continental gaps, model-surfaced opportunity signals where capability and commercialisation diverge, and whitespace where strong evidence outpaces current investment.
Continental gaps
Structural weaknesses to close.
Opportunity signals
Where capability and commercialisation diverge.
Investment whitespace
Strong evidence, thin investment — where a dollar earns most.
From discovery to economic impact
STISA-2034 asks Africa to move beyond research outputs alone — tracing knowledge through to innovation, public value and development impact. This follows African research into patents, licensing, ventures, jobs and value, and shows where the pathway loses momentum.
Commercialisation pipeline
Illustrative continental flow, one year.
Knowledge translation
How one evidence base becomes measured national impact.
A committee-ready recommendation
What to fund, stage and consolidate this cycle — cited to African evidence, aligned to STISA-2034 priorities, and mapped to the plan's MEAL indicators.
Mapped to MEAL indicators
Every call ties to a tracked indicator.
African ownership & governance
Built for the questions the STC-EST asks first.
Not a dashboard — the digital infrastructure underneath it
The Intelligence Platform is one application. Beneath it sits Africahied: an African-owned digital public infrastructure for science, technology and innovation that already exists, operates at scale, and is deployment-ready.
The infrastructure stack
The platform and its applications are configured on the foundation.
What Africahied already provides
Existing capability, not a roadmap.
Why only Africahied
The strategic differentiator.
From software procurement to continental infrastructure. Africahied provides the digital public infrastructure upon which the African STI Intelligence Platform is configured. Partnering with Africahied is not buying a dashboard — it is adopting the African-owned digital backbone on which STISA-2034 implementation can be planned, measured and accelerated across the continent.
About the platform
What this concept is, the proof that the underlying engine already runs on real African data, and how the platform is designed to sit within Africa's own STI infrastructure.
Median patient wait time by month (hours)
Live operational data across two clinics, Nov 2025 – Mar 2026
Infrastructure, not just an application. Africahied is an African-owned digital public infrastructure for STI — an indexed corpus of 147M+ publications, resolved researcher and institution identities, an evidence graph, AI and analytics. The African STI Intelligence Platform is the flagship application configured on it; the same infrastructure can host member-state portals, research intelligence, learning and policy AI.
A layer that complements and strengthens existing systems. The platform builds on the indicators AUDA-NEPAD and ASTII already collect — reading the African Innovation Outlook and member-state submissions, and adding evidence linkage, benchmarking and decision support that strengthen, rather than duplicate, national and continental systems.
Built for expert review and traceability. The platform is designed so that recommendations are expert-reviewed before use and every figure traces to its source, reporting year, data owner and validation status. Member-state data stays owned by the contributing state.
