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Practical digital-skills courses from Mafichoni Academy - migration readiness, ICT policy, fibre planning, and more, taught by practitioners - plus a curated library of free open courses from the world's leading ICT trainers.

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Free courses from ITU, MIT, Harvard, GSMA, Diplo, AFRALTI & more.

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Where to start

Six routes through the catalogue. Each begins with a free course where one exists, so you can test the fit before paying for anything.

Policy analyst

From reading someone else's assessment to running your own and arguing for what it implies. Start free, then go deep on regulation, evidence and the politics of getting a recommendation adopted.

  1. Reading the Digital Landscape: Using ICT Sector AssessmentsFree
  2. Measuring the Digital EconomyFree
  3. ICT Policy & Regulation Fundamentals
  4. ICT Sector Assessment & Market Mapping Bootcamp
  5. Writing Effective ICT Policy PapersFree
  6. Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy Bootcamp
  7. Negotiation & Coalition-Building for Tech Policy
Start with Reading the Digital Landscape: Using ICT Sector Assessments

29 courses

Digital Infrastructure
beginner

Digital Migration Readiness

Assess and prepare your organization for system and platform migrations - and avoid the four failure modes that sink them.

Free Self-paced
Digital Governance
intermediate

ICT Policy & Regulation Fundamentals

How ICT policy is made in Africa - and how to influence it constructively.

Ksh 7,500 Self-paced
Digital Infrastructure
intermediate

Fibre Optic Network Design & Deployment for African Terrain

Design resilient, financially viable fibre routes - from desktop survey and wayleaves to GPON, cost models, and maintenance.

Ksh 25,000 Self-paced
Digital Infrastructure
beginner

Intro to African Data Centre Strategy

Why data centres anchor the digital economy - and how to evaluate any proposed facility with a practical checklist.

Free Self-paced
Digital Assessments
beginner

Reading the Digital Landscape: Using ICT Sector Assessments

Turn a 100-page assessment report into decisions - a practical method for analysts, MEL officers, and regulators.

Free Self-paced
Digital Skills & Training
beginner

Digital Basics for Public Servants (5-Day Challenge)

Five short lessons - one per day - that make you a confident, secure, digitally capable public servant.

Free Self-paced
Digital Advocacy
beginner

Writing Effective ICT Policy Papers

The five-point Mafichoni framework for turning dense research into papers decision-makers actually act on.

Free Self-paced
Digital Inclusion
beginner

Designing Disability-Inclusive ICT: A Primer

Four practical fixes - contrast, alt text, structure, labels - grounded in WCAG, plus inclusive channel design for low-connectivity users.

Free Self-paced
Digital Governance
beginner

Data Protection & Privacy Quick-Start (African Context)

Kenya's DPA 2019, the Malabo Convention, core principles, breach duties, and DPIAs - the essentials in three lessons.

Free Self-paced
Digital Skills & Training
intermediate

Applying Digital Skills at Work: A Practitioner's Toolkit

From confident individual user to team digital multiplier - data-informed decisions, secure collaboration, and leading small-scale digital change.

Ksh 9,500 Self-paced
Digital Assessments
intermediate

ICT Sector Assessment & Market Mapping Bootcamp

Scope, design, run, and report a national or sectoral ICT assessment - with the indicator frameworks the field actually uses.

Ksh 15,000 Self-paced
Digital Advocacy
intermediate

Multi-Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy Bootcamp

Design and run consultations that produce legitimacy and outcomes - from WSIS principles to facilitation and follow-through.

Ksh 18,000 Self-paced
Digital Inclusion
intermediate

Building a National Universal Access Strategy

Coverage gaps, usage gaps, universal service funds, and intervention design - the full strategy toolkit for regulators and ministries.

Ksh 18,000 Self-paced
Digital Governance
intermediate

Data Protection Officer Practicum - African Context

The working DPO toolkit: comparative law, records of processing, DPIA method, breach runbooks, and audits - Kenya DPA at the core.

Ksh 22,000 Self-paced
Digital Infrastructure
intermediate

Data Centre Facility Management & Operations

From strategy to shift-by-shift running: standards, power and cooling, DCIM, and the incident discipline that keeps a facility up.

Ksh 12,000 Self-paced
Digital Infrastructure
intermediate

Cloud Migration & Hybrid Infrastructure for African Enterprises

Choose the right cloud model, plan a migration that survives contact with reality, and manage cost and data residency with confidence.

Ksh 13,500 Self-paced
Digital Infrastructure
intermediate

Renewable-Powered Telecom Site Design

Size solar-battery-generator hybrid systems for towers and remote sites - from load profiling to total cost of ownership.

Ksh 12,500 Self-paced
Digital Governance
intermediate

Cybersecurity Governance & National CIRT Frameworks

From NIST CSF and ISO 27001 to national incident-response coordination - the governance layer that makes cybersecurity a managed risk, not a fire drill.

Ksh 13,000 Self-paced
Digital Governance
intermediate

Digital ID & Identity Management Policy

Foundational vs functional ID, assurance levels, biometrics, and the inclusion risks that decide whether a digital ID system serves everyone.

Ksh 12,000 Self-paced
Digital Governance
intermediate

E-Government Interoperability Frameworks

Why government systems can't talk to each other - and the standards, architectures, and governance that fix it: the Once-Only Principle, X-Road, base registries, and API-first design.

Ksh 12,500 Self-paced
Digital Assessments
intermediate

Monitoring, Evaluation & Learning for Digital Programmes

OECD-DAC evaluation criteria, theory of change, and the attribution challenges specific to digital and multi-channel development programmes.

Ksh 11,500 Self-paced
Digital Assessments
beginner

Measuring the Digital Economy

What actually counts as "digital economy," and where to find credible data on it - a practical orientation for analysts and policymakers.

Free Self-paced
Digital Skills & Training
intermediate

Train-the-Trainer: Designing Digital Literacy Curricula

Adult learning principles, instructional design, and facilitation technique for anyone building or delivering a digital literacy programme.

Ksh 11,000 Self-paced
Digital Skills & Training
intermediate

Data Analysis Fundamentals for Development Professionals

Descriptive statistics, data quality, visualization, and the statistical fallacies that quietly mislead well-intentioned reports.

Ksh 10,500 Self-paced
Digital Advocacy
intermediate

Media & Communications Strategy for Digital Policy Campaigns

Owned, earned, and paid media; message framing; press engagement; crisis communications; and the ethics of policy communications.

Ksh 11,000 Self-paced
Digital Advocacy
intermediate

Negotiation & Coalition-Building for Tech Policy

Principled negotiation, BATNA, and the coalition-building discipline that turns aligned interests into durable, effective advocacy partnerships.

Ksh 11,500 Self-paced
Digital Advocacy
intermediate

Grant Writing & Donor Engagement for Digital Development Projects

Donor landscapes, competitive proposal writing, results frameworks, and the relationship management that turns one grant into a sustained partnership.

Ksh 11,000 Self-paced
Digital Inclusion
intermediate

Gender Digital Divide: Diagnosis & Intervention Design

Root causes, data challenges, and intervention design for closing the mobile and internet gender gap - grounded in GSMA's Mobile Gender Gap research.

Ksh 11,000 Self-paced
Digital Inclusion
intermediate

Assistive Technology & Inclusive ICT Procurement

From WCAG and EN 301 549 to writing accessible tenders, evaluating VPATs, and testing with real users - procurement as the lever that actually enforces accessibility.

Ksh 11,500 Self-paced