eGovernment technology & digital public infrastructure
Agora Technologies is a newly formed, European-led consortium of:
With a strong pan-African presence, we help governments in emerging markets digitise public services, raise state revenue, and build the local capacity to run it all themselves.
What we do
We pair enterprise-grade architecture with hands-on delivery — standing up citizen services in weeks, then maturing them into open, interoperable digital public infrastructure that the state owns and operates. Advisory and build, under one roof.
Advisory
Programme design, target architecture and procurement-ready scoping for digital government — grounded in delivery, not slideware.
Build
Citizen portals and priority services on an open digital public infrastructure layer — payments, identity and secure data exchange.
Transfer
Mixed local–international squads from day one, a developer marketplace, and a clear handover of operations to the country.
The consortium
Like the columns in our mark, Agora Technologies stands on three capabilities that work as a single team — combining enterprise transformation experience with proven eGovernment engineering and specialist DPI knowledge.
Decades of large-scale digital transformation across payments, identity, distribution and systems integration for global enterprises.
An international engineering team delivering eGovernment platforms using agile methodology, with security and human-centric experience design built in.
Practitioners of the open building blocks at the core of modern digital government — for example MOSIP, Mojaloop and X-Road, though never limited to them.
Expertise
We design along GovStack principles — assembling digital government from standardised, reusable building blocks rather than monolithic systems — and treat the result as an open integration layer, never vendor lock-in: modules interconnect every system and stay interchangeable. The open-source building blocks below are leading examples we know well; they illustrate our approach as frameworks rather than fix it. We stay technology-neutral and adopt whatever best fits each programme.
e-ID · MOSIP
Inclusive, privacy-respecting national digital identity that other services can trust and build on.
e-Payments · Mojaloop
Traceable, cashless collection into dedicated treasury accounts — turning scattered manual flows into captured public revenue.
Data exchange · X-Road
Government-grade data exchange so ministries and agencies connect through the DPI layer — never point-to-point.
How we work
Delivery starts with the consortium and ends with a local team. The effort shifts from us to the client government’s designated agency or local partner across the life of the programme — so capability and ownership stay where they belong. Build–Operate–Transfer is a framework we use as a guide, not a constraint, and we adapt it to each engagement.
Mixed squads pair our engineers with local developers from day one, shipping a working citizen portal and first services in weeks — manual back-office first, automated next.
We run the services together. Local teams take on first- then second-line support, with training and full access to the build and test environments.
Development, operations and support move to the local team and a competitive developer marketplace — the platform becomes the country's to own and evolve.
Why Agora
Deep architecture and implementation experience on large-scale commerce, payments and identity platforms — including programmes worth hundreds of millions of dollars.
Our people have delivered for major global enterprises and national government digital programmes, bringing patterns that transfer directly to public infrastructure.
Two-week sprints with a production increment every month — designing and shipping quickly to make the most of every programme timeline.
Specialists with production DPI deployments across Rwanda, Ethiopia, Côte d'Ivoire and Madagascar — field experience, not theory.
We focus on governments across sub-Saharan Africa and other emerging markets, working bilingually in English and French. Open-source by default — for sovereignty, security and lasting control of costs.
Get in touch
Whether you're scoping a new programme or accelerating one already underway, we'd be glad to share how the consortium model could work for you.