At the United Nations General Assembly engagements in 2025, Oswald Osaretin Guobadia, Managing Partner at DigitA, participated in conversations focused on innovation, digital transformation, and inclusive economic growth. At the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80) in September 2025, he contributed to discussions on how coordinated policy and ecosystem approaches can unlock scalable innovation, highlighting timbuktoo Africa’s model for strengthening the continent’s startup ecosystem through thematic innovation hubs and structured ecosystem coordination across Africa.

This engagement continued, where discussions increasingly centred on how innovation policy, capital mobilisation, and institutional collaboration can accelerate sustainable development and economic transformation. Within this context, Oswald moderated the timbuktoo Africa panel, “Africa’s Innovation Reset: Policy, Capital & Founders in Action,” which explored the regulatory and financing conditions required to enable founders to build and scale solutions across African markets. The conversation emphasised the importance of aligning policy reform with investment flows and founder realities to create more resilient and scalable innovation ecosystems.

He also contributed to the Sierra Leone Innovation Showcase panel on “The Role of the Private Sector in Building a Digital Future,” where the discussion underscored that meaningful progress depends on stronger alignment between governments, innovators, and private sector actors. The session reinforced a central theme across UNGA engagements: that translating innovation into measurable economic impact requires coordinated action rather than isolated initiatives.

On the sidelines, Oswald was interviewed by international journalist Stephanie Busari at the Global Africa Business Initiative. Reflecting on Africa’s innovation trajectory, he highlighted that the continent’s global competitiveness will depend not only on the strength of its ideas and talent, but on the development of enabling systems, coherent policy frameworks, investment readiness, and sustained cross-sector collaboration that allow innovation to scale and deliver long-term economic value.