{"id":12022,"date":"2020-09-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/09\/25\/en-west-african-igf-2020-overview\/"},"modified":"2020-09-25T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-09-25T10:00:00","slug":"en-west-african-igf-2020-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2020\/09\/25\/en-west-african-igf-2020-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"West African IGF 2020 Virtual \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest & 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n

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  1. The 12th West African IGF (WAIGF) went fully virtual for the first time on 22\u201324 July 2020, meeting under the theme 'Digital Inclusion and Access in West Africa in response to COVID-19.'<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Trust and privacy in the pandemic and cybersecurity and cybercrime in the era of digital cooperation dominated; the outcome communiqu\u00e9 was routed to ECOWAS ministers in charge of Telecommunications\/ICT.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. It is a snapshot of the moment lockdowns exposed who could and could not get online \u2014 the same divide every country, including wealthy ones, confronted in 2020.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on West African IGF 2020 in Virtual<\/strong> draws on official outputs, session records and on-site reporting. In a hurry? The three lines above and the diagrams carry the gist.<\/p>\n

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    📍 Held online as the catalogue states \u2014 the first fully virtual edition, forced by COVID-19. ECOWAS gives the dates as 22\u201324 July with the forum proper described as a two-day videoconference.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Edition<\/td>\n12th edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n22\u201324 July 2020<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nOnline (videoconference)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nDigital Inclusion and Access in West Africa in response to COVID-19<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nECOWAS Commission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Outcome<\/td>\nA communiqu\u00e9 for presentation to ECOWAS Ministers in charge of Telecommunications\/ICT<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

    (See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n

    Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n

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    Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n

    1. COVID-19 and Digital Inclusion \u2014 A Pandemic Reorders Priorities<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Multiple sessions<\/p>\n

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    "(Stakeholders should) contribute to the ongoing conversations that can shape the development of the region"
    \n\u2014 Dr. Zouli Bonkoungou (ECOWAS Commissioner for Telecommunications and Information Technology)<\/strong> [1]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n