{"id":14997,"date":"2021-09-02T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-02T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/09\/02\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview\/"},"modified":"2021-09-02T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T09:00:00","slug":"en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/2021\/09\/02\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l&#8217;Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM-21) \u2014 ninth edition \u2014 In-Depth Report: Minutes Digest &#038; 3-Line Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview_thumbnail.svg\" alt=\"Cameroon IGF 2021 \u30af\u30ea\u30d3 \u2014 Thumbnail\"><\/p>\n<h2>The 3-Line Summary<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview_s3.svg\" alt=\"Cameroon IGF 2021 \u30af\u30ea\u30d3 \u2014 3-line summary\"><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>On 9\u201311 June 2021 the ninth Cameroon national IGF, IGF.CM-21, met at the H\u00f4tel LAGON in the port city of Kribi, themed &#39;The internet and business resilience in the Covid-19 era.&#39;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Building on measures ANTIC had urged on government \u2014 telework, telemedicine, e-learning, e-commerce \u2014 experts examined business resilience amid the pandemic, protection of sensitive data and the dematerialisation of administrative procedures.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>ANTIC&#39;s director-general argued the internet was the very reason to be optimistic about restarting the economy. It proved to be the series&#39; final edition; the national IGF has been dormant since.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Welcome \u2014 this is the Japan IGF Support Organization. This in-depth report on <strong>Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM-21) \u2014 ninth 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<h2>Conference at a Glance (from official records)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview_h2.svg\" alt=\"Cameroon IGF 2021 \u30af\u30ea\u30d3 \u2014 Conference at a glance\"><\/p>\n<table>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th>Item<\/th>\n<th>Detail<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>Official name<\/td>\n<td>Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet au Cameroun (IGF.CM-21) \u2014 ninth edition<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dates<\/td>\n<td>9\u201311 June 2021<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Venue<\/td>\n<td>H\u00f4tel LAGON, Kribi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Theme<\/td>\n<td>&#39;Internet et r\u00e9silience des entreprises en p\u00e9riode de Covid-19&#39; (The internet and business resilience in the Covid-19 era)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Host<\/td>\n<td>ANTIC (Agence Nationale des Technologies de l&#39;Information et de la Communication); DG Prof. Ebot Ebot Enaw and DDG Paulette Abenkou both attended<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>(See the source list at the end of this article.)<\/p>\n<h2>Discussion Digest \u2014 from the Session Records<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview_minutes.svg\" alt=\"Cameroon IGF 2021 \u30af\u30ea\u30d3 \u2014 Discussion map\"><\/p>\n<p>Key exchanges extracted from session records and transcripts.<\/p>\n<h3>1. Business Resilience in the Pandemic \u2014 Rebuilding the Economy Online<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Opening ceremony and theme sessions (from 9 June)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&quot;\u00ab L&#39;internet permet d&#39;envisager avec grand optimisme et assurance, le red\u00e9marrage et le rebond de notre \u00e9conomie \u00bb (The internet lets us look ahead to the restart and rebound of our economy with great optimism and assurance)&quot;<br \/>\n\u2014 <strong>Prof. Ebot Ebot Enaw (Director-General, ANTIC) \u2014 translated from French<\/strong> [1][2]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>Ahead of the forum ANTIC had proposed internet-based crisis measures to government: telework, telemedicine, massive recourse to e-learning, e-commerce and teleconferencing [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>The daily Cematin reported government experts, the private sector, civil society and academics convening to examine &#39;from top to bottom&#39; how the internet could carry development past the Covid obstacle [1][2]<\/li>\n<li>&#39;The great opportunities the internet offers businesses in a health crisis&#39; anchored one of the thematic tracks [1][2]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2. Data Protection in an Age of Mass Use \u2014 Crisis and Privacy<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Thematic sessions<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The official site lists &#39;protection of sensitive data in a context of massive internet use&#39; among the core topics [1]<\/li>\n<li>The internet&#39;s place within government and institutional anti-Covid measures was also on the agenda, testing the balance between public health and digital rights [1]<\/li>\n<li>It capped the data-protection line running from 2018 (sensitive data) through 2020 (data governance) [1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>3. Dematerialising Procedures \u2014 the Port of Kribi as a Live Example<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: Thematic session on administrations and the dematerialisation challenge<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Digital transformation of specific sectors and the dematerialisation challenge facing administrations were headline sessions [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Cematin noted that the Port Autonome de Kribi, an early mover on paperless procedures, had ridden out the pandemic with little disruption \u2014 a potential &#39;textbook case&#39; of resilience through digitalisation [2][1]<\/li>\n<li>Kribi itself \u2014 deep-sea port, submarine-cable landing point, industrial complex \u2014 embodied the meeting&#39;s link between digitalisation and development [2][1]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4. The Final Edition \u2014 a Series Gone Quiet<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Sessions<\/strong>: What became of the IGF.CM series (retrospective)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Later snapshots of the official site list nothing beyond the ninth edition; no record of a tenth edition in 2022 exists [3]<\/li>\n<li>A national IGF that ran nine consecutive years and rotated through seven cities stopped here and remains dormant [3]<\/li>\n<li>The 2022 Yaound\u00e9 event was a regional Central African IGF (FGI-AC) gathering \u2014 not to be confused with this national series [3]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Three-Minute Short Talk \u2014 Your Questions Answered<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q. What did the meeting decide?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. Nothing binding \u2014 it was a national forum on rebuilding businesses and the economy through the internet amid Covid, with concrete tracks from telework to e-commerce.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. What happened next?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. This turned out to be the last edition. After nine consecutive years, the national IGF has not met since 2021 \u2014 a case study in how hard it is to sustain a dialogue venue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q. Why should I care?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A. The pandemic&#39;s forced digital acceleration was universal, and the Port of Kribi&#39;s lesson \u2014 paperless procedures make organisations crisis-proof \u2014 speaks to digital-government debates everywhere.<\/p>\n<h2>What Is Cameroon IGF? (for first-time readers)<\/h2>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/en-cameroon-igf-2021-overview_h1.svg\" alt=\"Cameroon IGF 2021 \u30af\u30ea\u30d3 \u2014 About Cameroon IGF\"><\/p>\n<p>Cameroon IGF is a National or Regional IGF Initiative (NRI), aligning local internet governance discussion with global IGF principles.<\/p>\n<h2>Why It Matters to You<\/h2>\n<p>What was discussed here becomes <strong>the baseline for national digital policy, platform rules and AI regulation worldwide within a few years<\/strong>. The principles confirmed at the 2021 meeting are the foundation of the &quot;next rules&quot; for the phones, social platforms and AI services you use every day.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources &amp; References<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230918134852\/http:\/\/www.igf.cm\/index.php\/component\/content\/article\/13-l-igf\/76-neuvieme-forum-national-sur-la-gouvernance-de-l-internet\">Neuvi\u00e8me Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet\uff08\u4e8b\u5f8c\u8a18\u4e8b\uff1a6\u67089\u301c11\u65e5\u30fbH\u00f4tel LAGON\u30fb\u30c6\u30fc\u30de\u3068\u8a0e\u8b70\u306e\u67f1\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF.CM\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08ANTIC\uff09\uff0fWayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210613044456\/https:\/\/cematin.info\/2021\/06\/10\/9eme-forum-national-sur-la-gouvernance-de-linternet-a-kribi-les-solutions-de-lantic-pour-la-resilience-des-entreprises-en-contexte-covid19\/\">9\u00e8me Forum National sur la Gouvernance de l&#39;Internet \u00e0 Kribi : Les solutions de l&#39;ANTIC pour la r\u00e9silience des entreprises en contexte covid19\uff08\u73fe\u5730\u7d19\u306e\u958b\u50ac\u5831\u9053\u30fb\u9577\u5b98\u767a\u8a00\uff09<\/a> \u2014 Cematin\uff08L&#39;information Camerounaise\uff09\uff0fWayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20230918134852\/http:\/\/www.igf.cm\/\">IGF.CM\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff082023\u5e749\u6708\u6642\u70b9\u30b9\u30ca\u30c3\u30d7\u30b7\u30e7\u30c3\u30c8\uff1a\u6700\u65b0\u63b2\u8f09\u304c\u7b2c9\u56de\u3067\u3042\u308b\u3053\u3068\u306e\u78ba\u8a8d\uff09<\/a> \u2014 IGF.CM\u516c\u5f0f\u30b5\u30a4\u30c8\uff08ANTIC\uff09\uff0fWayback Machine\u4fdd\u5b58 (accessed 2026-07-23)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Quotes are translated or condensed from the records listed above. Bracketed numbers [n] refer to the source list.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>Related links<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>IGF official (NRI list): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives\">https:\/\/www.intgovforum.org\/en\/content\/national-and-regional-igf-initiatives<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Japan IGF: <a href=\"https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/\">https:\/\/japanigf.jp\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Yuki Nakazawa&#39;s blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/\">https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/category\/igf\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\u66f4\u65b0\u5c65\u6b74<\/h2>\n<p>\u7b2c1\u7a3f\u6295\u7a3f 2026\u5e748\u670813\u65e5 15\u664258\u5206\uff08\u8a18\u4e8b\u30b3\u30f3\u30c6\u30f3\u30c4\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\uff09<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 \u4e2d\u6fa4\u7950\u6a39<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 9\u201311 June 2021 the ninth Cameroon national IGF, IGF.CM-21, met at the H\u00f4tel LAGON in the port city of Kribi, themed &#8216;The internet and bus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,79,3,11],"tags":[163,2697,161,160,162,164],"class_list":["post-14997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afigf","category-cameroon-igf","category-igf","category-regional-igf","tag-3-line-summary","tag-cameroonigf2021","tag-deep-dive","tag-english","tag-minutes-digest","tag-sourced"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nkzw.jp\/igf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}