A first year devoted to public service and digital public infrastructureThroughout the year, the fellows devoted their work to strengthening African public action, to make excellence in public governance a central lever of transformation. Digital public infrastructure (DPI) formed the main thread of this first year of work. The white paper identifies three structuring priorities for African public actors:Building shared digital infrastructure that serves as the backbone of public services and private innovation. that serves as the backbone of public services and private innovation. “LEAD’s first cohort confirms a simple conviction: Africa already has the women and men capable of profoundly transforming public action.