Digitalization and Government Response to COVID-19 in post-pandemic in Africa

The relevance of digital technology has increased globally, especially duringand after the Covid-19 outbreak. However, digitalisation in Africa is stillunder the development process whereby the majority of African countries areadjusting and adapting to digitalization. The lack of technologicaladvancement in Africa poses a serious delay to the adoption of digitalization.This study aims to assess the digitalisation and government response toCOVID-19 during the post-pandemic era in Africa. This study was donequalitatively as a desktop study. Therefore, this study used a secondaryresearch approach where books, journal articles, and newspapers wereemployed to collect data. A key finding of this paper is that the majority ofAfrican countries are still struggling to adapt to digital technologies becauseof the lack of Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) materials but slowly butsurely they are adopting digitalization. As digital transformation is essentialfor survival, businesses and institutions have increased their investments intechnological breakthroughs. This study concludes that the introduction ofdigitalization in Africa was the best solution to curb the spread of COVID19. Africa is still behind in digitalization, although it has a long history withtechnology. Africa has proven to be resilient, and its nations are catching upin embracing global digitization. The study recommends that digitalization inAfrica in response to the pandemic must be adopted for future outbreaks.African countries must continue adopting digitalization because people nowprefer to use the 4IR method.