Harmonization of the legal framework governing ICTs in West African states (UEMOA-ECOWAS): proposed guidelines

Abstract

The general guidelines on the harmonization of the ICT legal and regulatory framework in West Africa in the UEMOA-ECOWAS space are aimed at governing a particularly changing technological area with a view to responding to the demanding expectations of numerous stakeholders with often divergent interests. They should constitute the general law of the information society. They must thus be made up of rules that are at once general and sufficiently precise to adapt, on the one hand to technological evolutions and their spill-over effects, and on the other hand to legal institutions, arrangements, and techniques in member states.