ECA to support Cameroon’s digital transition strategy

Abstract

Cameroon’s Minister of Posts and Telecommunications – Minette Libom Li Likeng– will on Thursday 4 July 2019 from 9.30 am chair a consultation to kick-start collaboration between Cameroon and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to operationalize Cameroon’s digital transformation blueprint – dubbed “Strategic Plan for a Digital Cameroon by 2020.” The meeting to bring together key stakeholders of the tech community in Yaounde including the country’s telecommunications regulatory and oversight institutions, mobile telephony corporates, ICT-related start-ups and officials of some ministries, will be held at the ECA compound at Quartier du Lac Yaounde, located on the street behind Cameroon’s former presidency. The plan for a Digital Cameroon by 2020 focuses on defining strategic areas, actions with great impact on the digital development of the territory, enhancing the use of ICT services, alleviating poverty via job-creating ventures in the digital sector and increasing the national economic growth rate. The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications the different stakeholders to be present at Thursday’s meeting and ECA’s officials will therefore build on these strategic directions to define concrete ways of supporting the implementation of Cameroon’s vision in the sector.