AfICTA - Africa ICT Alliance is currently being represented by 6 IT Business Experts from the 5 regions of Africa @ the ongoing AUC Train the Trainers Workshop organized by the African Union Commission as part of its "Policy and Regulation Initiative for Digital Africa (PRIDA)" initiative.
African Union earlier invited AfICTA as the representative of the African ICT Business and AfICTA in response sent her prominent ICT business experts which include: Hossam Ragheb (Egypt), Assangbe Wotto Gbentonji Vivien (Benin Rep), Ulandi Exner (South Africa), Inye Kemabonta (Nigeria), Caroline Kirichu (Kenya), and Bambo Samuel (Cameroon) coming from the five African regions (North, West, Southern, West, East and Central Africa respectively) to attend.
According to the African Union Commission, the overall objective of the PRIDA is to foster universally accessible, affordable and effective wireless broadband-across the continent to unlock possible future benefits of Internet-based services.
The workshop being hosted @ the AUC headquarters in Addis-Ababa is expected to last for 5 days and commenced on Monday 27th May with deep reflection on issues pertaining to Internet Governance, Network and Infrastructure, Security, Human Rights, Legal, Economic, Sociocultural, Development, and Institutions and multi-stakeholder partnerships/engagements.
Reflecting on the outcome of the sessions, Inye Kemabonta reported that the first day covered concepts, historical perspectives, regulation, and infrastructure of the Internet. He mentioned how important it is to promote African perspectives and to have our own histories written by us.
The second day was a practicum session with a group chaired by one of the delegates from AfICTA, Hossam Ragheb the group examined some of the issues from the first day with countries like Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, and South Africa as case studies.
The workshop dived deeper on the third day focusing on the legal and regulatory frameworks for Internet governance with Cybersecurity session that opened participants' minds to some important assertions. The day's engagement was closed with a practicum on critical infrastructure.
Further update would be provided soonest.
