Privacy and sovereignty depend on knowing local data better than anyone.
Dekka studies the identifiers, languages and data practices of the places it serves, and publishes what it learns so organisations can decide well about where their data goes.
Published
What personal data looks like in Ghana
A field guide to Ghana's identifiers, names, addresses and languages, how general-purpose privacy tools cope with them, and what organisations sending data abroad, including to AI models, should do about it.
- Privacy
- Identifiers
- Languages
- AI
How we research
The care that goes into this work is the reason to trust what comes out of it.
- Traced to the source
- Every identifier format comes from the body that issues it, or an international body it reports to, and weaker evidence is labelled as weaker.
- Licences read at the source
- We read the terms of anything we learn from on the publisher's own pages, and follow the stricter reading when two disagree.
- No one's data collected
- We never gather real people's identifiers to study them. Every example we publish is synthetic or an issuer's own.
- Measured per language
- Results are reported separately for English and each Ghanaian language, never blended into one flattering number.
- Claims wait for evidence
- Accuracy and speed are published only with the data and hardware they were measured on.
Work with us on what doesn't exist yet
If you hold specifications, data or Ghanaian-language expertise that could make privacy tools better for the people who use them, write to us at hello@dekka.cloud.