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Airtel Africa: exemplary digital-first reporting

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Setting a New Standard for Digital-First Reporting

While many organisations claim to offer ‘digital-first reporting’, these often amount to little more than online summaries that overlook AI-readability, accessibility and reporting compliance. Airtel Africa is changing that. Building on its award-winning 2025 report, the company once again used Reportl’s innovative reporting software to create fully compliant, accessible digital, PDF and print reports with iXBRL tagging, delivering instant multi-channel outputs from a single source of content.

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The AI and Stakeholder Choice

Airtel’s HTML report is designed for the way stakeholders access information today, ensuring investors and AI-powered search tools can quickly find accurate, accessible content. Unlike PDF-only reports, which are largely invisible to AI and often generate poorly structured HTML when converted from ESEF filings, the digital-first approach delivers a superior user experience. The results speak for themselves, with active users increasing by 351% and average engagement time rising by 364% compared with the previous year’s summary digital report.

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Future-Proof and ESEF Compliant

By creating its report natively in XHTML, Airtel Africa avoids the conversion issues common with ESEF reports generated from InDesign PDFs, delivering a more robust, compliant and accessible reporting process. As the FRC increases scrutiny of ESEF filings and the UK Corporate Governance Code’s Provision 29 places greater emphasis on Board oversight of financial reporting and internal controls, Airtel Africa’s digital-first approach is already future-fit, setting the benchmark for ESEF compliance and reporting best practice.

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