TheAfriForge

Become a member

Join TheAfriForge to contribute to African digital sovereignty through concrete programmes and open governance.

Why become a member

Joining TheAfriForge means contributing to critical infrastructure, open source commons, and governance standards for the continent.

Continental impact

Contribute to strategic digital services reusable across countries and institutions.

Security and resilience

Help build a stronger and safer software supply chain.

Capability building

Access a collaborative ecosystem for training, documentation, and technical exchange.

Member profiles

We welcome technical, institutional, and operational contributions.

Technical contributor

Engineering teams, security experts, and open source maintainers.

  • Contribute to priority software components
  • Join technical and security reviews
  • Share quality and documentation practices

Infrastructure partner

Datacenters, operators, hosting providers, and regional cloud actors.

  • Co-design sovereign hosting standards
  • Provide technical or federation capacity
  • Contribute to availability and recovery objectives

Institutional partner

Universities, public agencies, companies, and impact actors.

  • Support platform adoption
  • Contribute to governance orientation
  • Fund or support strategic programmes

Membership process

1

Submission

You submit the form with your profile, objectives, and contribution proposal.

Immediate

2

Qualification

Our team reviews your request and checks alignment with TheAfriForge priorities.

Within 48h

3

Scoping call

A 30-minute call clarifies expectations, deliverables, and collaboration model.

Within 7 days

4

Decision and onboarding

You receive the decision, participation charter, and onboarding plan.

Within 10 days

Membership application

This form is sent to the TheAfriForge membership team.