Session
Organizer 1: Michel TCHONANG LINZE, CAPDA
Organizer 2: Christian Nzhie, CAPDA
Organizer 3: Franck Bama, Nextel Cameroon
Organizer 4: Cameroon IGF, IGF Cameroon
Speaker 1: Baya Sylvain, Technical Community, African Group
Speaker 2: Franck Bama, Private Sector, African Group
Speaker 3: Diakite Hawa, Government, African Group
Christian Nzhie, Civil Society, African Group
Eric SINDEU, Private Sector, African Group
Cameroon IGF, Government, African Group
Round Table - Circle - 90 Min
1) Local Content & Language Diversity Topics: Multilingual, Local Content Development, Universal Acceptance 2) Availability, Affordability & Access of Infrastructure Topics: Connecting the Unconnected regionally, Meaningful and affordable Connectivity, effective Infrastructure, Community Networks, Dynamic Spectrum Use, Conducive Regulatory Frameworks 3) Accessibility & Policy for Social Inclusion Topics: Gender, Disability, Refugees, Minorities, Design for Inclusion How do we manage ICT implementation ensuring social inclusion and preventing disruptions in the life of communities that may harm their social convenience, or increase previously existent inequality gaps?
Connection with previous Messages: Regulators: Urge them to lower the cost of licenses, in order to facilitate negotiations with major content producers (GAFAM, etc.) to help operators continue to invest in major telecommunications infrastructures; IPv6 Digital policy migration of African countries in order to prepare for 5G and its effective exploitation. Political leadership: Encouragement to effectively play its major role so that other stakeholders take their responsibility and contribute in an inclusive manner to digital acceleration in and after the Covid-19 era; Advance the participation and involvement of our African countries; and ensure that our governments and regulators, as well as other stakeholder actors, regularly and increasingly intervene and contribute in these governance spaces to ensure that African interests and viewpoints, in each of the stakeholders of its sub-ecosystem, on digital issues, are known and taken into account; Reform and establishment of an adequate framework in line with the international law regime to clearly regulate the Internet and digital space in Africa and Cameroon; Implement digital policies for the unconnected and for the disconnected; Collaborative Framework of all actors involved in the issue of digital inclusion to provide access through digital infrastructure to all;
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9. Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure
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Targets: Each of these, as well as others, are aided by the protection of the right to access to the Internet; both as a source of information and sharing. In all cases, this access and sharing can be aided by reasonable applications of Internet Governance.
Description:
The complete topic the IGF Cameroon will cover will treat about about Accelerating the Digital Transformation looking at which Adjustments for the Deployment of Resilient Infrastructures? The African leadership’s style will determine the way in which Africa will be involved in the discussions currently underway regarding the digital future worldwide. It is indeed imperative that every stakeholder in Africa plays its full role in order to ensure an effective participation of the continent in global debates on the present and future of Digital. Digital Transformation Acceleration Needs The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated Africa's digital transformation by highlighting the digital divide in most of its regions, thus giving rise to necessary adjustments in but not limited to the following points: Implement effective policies for the unconnected and for the disconnected; Ensure the collaboration of all actors involved in the issue of digital inclusion to provide digital access to all; Use existing Universal Service Fund resources available in most of our countries to build sustainable digital infrastructure in all African countries. The Digital Divide Africa should take advantage of the opportunity presented by COVID-19 to bridge the digital divide. Hence, the key infrastructures in which African countries should primarily invest and cope with the fast changes are the submarine cables which must be deployed throughout the continent. Policy and Regulatory Framework An adjustment in terms of digital policies and international law that clearly regulates Africa's Internet space must imperatively be put in place. Also, digital policies and appropriate regulatory frameworks in Africa should support the technologies currently being deployed to facilitate access to those submarine cables for and by all operators. In that regard, it would be wise to multiply and facilitate the different African perspectives through international meetings such as the IGF, ICANN, AFRINIC, WSIS, etc., where these issues are widely discussed. Similarly, the progress of our participation and involvement must be a priority; in the sense that it will be necessary to ensure that our governments, regulators and actors of other stakeholders, take a place and intervene on a regular basis in these governance spaces to ensure that African interests and points of view in general and those of Cameroon, and of each of the stakeholders of its sub-ecosystem, in particular on issues relating to digital and Internet development are known. Difficulties and Challenges The difficulties faced by institutions (university, private sector, OCS, etc.) in Africa and more especially in Cameroon for access to infrastructure and the Internet are increasingly enormous. It is therefore important to talk about the evolution and management of Internet resources in recent years and the difficulties encountered during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Press release Publication Government’s recommendations Workshops on national and sub-regional level Regional Follow up events
Hybrid Format: No current plans other than to follow the guidance given by the IGF Secretariat and MAG on how to be inclusive of both onsite and offsite participants. Specific details will depend on what services are offered for binding on & off site into a common session. The IGF Cameroon team will be deployed both online and onsite. We will have an online moderator and onsite moderator, rapporteurs as well as interpreters. Additionally, the session will be delivered in both English and French as the interpretation will be available. So, we intend to have French - English and English - French translations to ensure effective inclusiveness and collaboration among the speakers and the audience. The IGF Cameroon team is organized and uses online tools such as a mailing list, collaborative documents where all the preparatory and discussions are driven and scrutinized. This will continue to be part of our method and will be combined with the other services in so far as it is possible and facilitated by adequate network bandwidth.
Usage of IGF Official Tool.