Today, AfICTA – Africa Information and Communication Technologies Alliance, turned 4 having been established on May 1, 2012 by 6 national ICT Stakeholders from Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Egypt, Tunisia and The Gambia.

25 African countries’ concerned private sector entities are currently members of AfICTA. Including professionals from Benin, Burundi, Chad, Cote d'ivoire, DR Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Libya, Mauritius, Mali, Morocco, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, The Gambia, Tunisia, Uganda.

The vision of AfICTA is to fulfill the promise of the digital age for everyone in Africa, with the mission to encourage multi-stakeholder dialogue fostering accelerated and ICT enabled development in Africa and the use of cutting-edge innovative technologies including mobile, computing and satellite technologies to achieve an Information society in Africa.

Its objectives include organizing non-government ICT stakeholders in Africa for effective local and continental advocacy, to be the focal point for Africa ICT advocacy in the global digital economy, promote constant improvement in African digital literacy in collaboration with stakeholders, create partnerships with the African Union and all the regional economic commissions towards realizing global sustainable development targets for Africa, support effective dialogue between members and policy makers, mobilise the core leadership of African ICT professionals and experts in the business community, academic and technical community and civil society to be fully engaged in the global Internet Governance multi-stakeholder dialogues, promote business partnerships between members and their associations’ members, contribute to capacities building by promoting best practices, encouraging regional projects, sharing data (skills, expertise, events, business announcements, exhibitions, seminars) and to organise an annualregional summit for knowledge sharing and cross-African advocacy.

“By engaging to connect African ICT professionals for increased intra-African trade, it’s my hope that we as African can truly take our destinies into our own hands and confine to the dustbin the notion that Africa is a dark continent” Said AfICTA Chair, Dr Jimson Olufuye. He further enjoined that a truly united Africa in all ramifications is a necessity for sustainable development to be achieved in Africa by the year 2030 and AfICTA is indeed the reliable partner to make that a reality.

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