{"id":14981,"date":"2013-09-22T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/09\/22\/en-cameroon-igf-2013-overview\/"},"modified":"2013-09-22T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T09:00:00","slug":"en-cameroon-igf-2013-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2013\/09\/22\/en-cameroon-igf-2013-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l’Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM) 2013 \u2014 first edition \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. On 27\u201329 August 2013, Cameroon held its first national Internet Governance Forum, IGF.CM, at the Palais des Congr\u00e8s in Yaound\u00e9, organised by the national ICT agency ANTIC.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  2. Six workshops over three days covered the state of ICT regulation, cybersecurity and cybercrime, critical resources such as IPv6 and the CAB fibre backbone project, and the internet as a lever for economic growth.<\/strong><\/li>\n
  3. It is the record of government, business, civil society and international organisations first debating in one room in Central Africa's most populous economy \u2014 and the starting point of an eight-year, city-rotating national IGF series.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l'Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM) 2013 \u2014 first edition<\/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

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

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    Item<\/th>\nDetail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
    Official name<\/td>\nForum National sur la Gouvernance de l'Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM) 2013 \u2014 first edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Dates<\/td>\n27\u201329 August 2013<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Venue<\/td>\nPalais des Congr\u00e8s, Yaound\u00e9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Theme<\/td>\nRegional governance themes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
    Host<\/td>\nANTIC (Agence Nationale des Technologies de l'Information et de la Communication), under the patronage of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MINPOSTEL), with CAMTEL, the ISOC Cameroon Chapter, CAMIX and others<\/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. The First National IGF \u2014 Launching Multistakeholder Dialogue<\/h3>\n

    Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony; Workshop 1 'The ICT landscape in Cameroon' and Workshop 2 'Internet governance and participation' (27 August)<\/p>\n