The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated an increased need for effective design and implementation of e-budgeting infrastructures across the globe. This chapter addresses how this can and should be achieved in Africa based on an analysis of Digital Participatory Budgeting in Botswana. It shows how e-budgeting (EPB) comes with other critical benefits for policymaking besides budget participation. It enables ideals such as Open Data and Big Data and enhances budget transparency, efficiency and effectiveness. Based on the ‘basics first’ approach, this chapter argues that e-budgeting can enhance budget participation and engender the 3Es of management (efficiency, effectiveness and economy). However, basics (fundamentals or firsts) must be in place before rolling out e-budgeting. In the end, the general lesson for Africa ensuing from this case is the need to graft the e-budgeting system on basics (or fundamentals or firsts). It concludes that the utilisation of e-budgeting can improve the present budgetary system and hence requires more intentional resource allocation and expansion of the existing Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) infrastructures

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