Akinremi Peter Taiwo

Dakar – Nairobi – Geneva 14/12/2018 As part of the Africa Ecommerce weekend 2018 held in Nairobi from 10 to 14 December 2018, the African Civil Society on the Company of the largest pan-African network ICT Information organized the first contest of mobile e-commerce applications (ECMAA Awards). According to the president of ACSIS, Dr. Cissé Kane, the competition aimed to stimulate creativity and innovation among young talents, students, young graduates of our continent (and its diaspora) and promote solutions for new job opportunities through the development of e-commerce mobile application. 50 applications from 15 African countries were registered. Of the 18 pre-selected teams, 11 gathered in Nairobi to participate in the final as well as 2 teams online.  The final of the Competition took place on Friday, December 14, 2018.   The International Jury consisted of:    Mrs. Nnenna Nwakanma, Web Foundation, Nigeria, President of the Jury  M. Alyoune Badara Diop, Secretary-G

Day one of the eCommerce week, Nairobi The eCommerce week started with a high level meeting that has the representation of UNCTAD Secretary General, UNON, international organization, Private sector, Business, Academia and Civil Society. On the front burners were the issues of cross border trade between the African countries and the international market, mobile payment, mobile connectivity, accessibility, taxes, awareness, trust, capacity building, cost of devices and data. It was noted that business model must evolve as the digital space evolved. Ideation must come with sustainable business models to get the needed support. Women should not be given access, but must be part of access processes. Civil society must intensify their efforts and pressure to ensure implementation of strategic digital policy implementation by the necessary stakeholders. Africa must come together to build a unique single eCommerce market that competes with that of the international market. As reg

The session seeks to identify the barriers to greater digital inclusion and recommend ways of overcoming these obstacles towards empowering Africans with the transforming power of ICTs. Tope Ogundipe, the Director of Programs with Paradigm Initiative moderated the session. She reflected on the 21% internet penetration in Africa, a figure that reflects the underdevelopment on a continent with a population of around 1.2billion. On the panel were Chioma Agwuegbo from CC Consulting Services (Nigeria), Akinremi Peter Taiwo, a West Africa Coordinator of African Civil Society (Nigeria), Olajumoke Adekeye, a statistician (Nigeria) and Poncelet Ileleji from The Gambia. Chioma, the first speaker listed three key factors that must be met before access would become a priority for the human kind which are Food, Shelter and Clothing. She further looked at how poverty has handicap many Africans in the area of affordability of computers and internet access. Peter, who was the second speaker

How does good cybersecurity contribute to the growth of and trust in ICTs and Internet Technologies, and their ability to support the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? The rapid growth and adoption of ICTs as a key driver of the economic development would be jeopardized if measures to protect connected devices and user generated data is absent. The fear of data compromising, information theft, privacy intrusion, surveillance, unreliable software programs and applications would not allow those unconnected billion people to fully rely on the use of the internet and its related technologies therefore distant the realization of sustainable development goals. The emergency of internet, penetration and its usage was given highest consideration with less attention to its security issues. Less attention to protecting the information and communication technologies and internet technologies would lead to high rate of disadvantages over the benefits.   Abuse of the use of technologies

9 TH WEST AFRICAN INTERNET GOVERNANCE FORUM, JULY 27 TH AND 28 TH , 2017, COTONOU, BENIN: Digital security for socioeconomic   development and peace in West Africa The 9 th West African Internet Governance Forum was held at Golden Tulip diplomat in Cotonou, Benin. The two (2) day event attracted stakeholders across the nations for dialog on digital security for socioeconomic development. The event recorded 418 participants with full house at the closing session The conference was opened by stakeholders with beautiful welcome addresses. But the opening remarks were made by the Minister for Ministry of Digital Economy and Commission (MENC), Benin. The conference also witnessed the report from the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) countries’ representatives such as Nigeria, Benin, Chad, Gambia, Togo, Niger, Guinea Bissau, Liberia, etc. Sessions on Security, Openness and Privacy was moderated by Jacques Houngbo, FGI Bénin. Jacques gave a brief importance of security in the

DECLARATION OF THE NGO (NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION) ALACO ON THE OCCASION OF THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FIGHT AGAINST CORRUPTION. December 09th, 2016 On Friday, December 09th, 2016, United Nations decided to mark a symbolic stop to say NO to the corruption which acts in a fatal way on the development. The fight against corruption which constitutes an important criterion of the good governance managed to be taken into account as a major concern of the government at the international level. Since the institution from this international day of fight against corruption to this day, we are entitled to wonder if the pursued objectives were reached affected. To answer this interrogation on the occasion of this contribution seems to us conceited. However, one has to recognize that the corruption continues to go on the rampage in our countries. The governance of our states is strongly altered by the problems of admissibility, failure to respect the established rules and the often disputed elec