[AfrICANN-discuss] Cameroon: African Internet Community Discuss Key Development

[Mamadou LO]

Source : http://allafrica.com/stories/201111221619.html
 
Cameroon: African Internet Community Discuss Key Development
 
Over 800 experts are meeting in Yaounde, a day after Cameroon's Chapter of the Internet Society re-launched its activities.





The African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) is currently hosting its 15th biâ-annual meeting at the Yaounde Hilton Hotel. The event which also coincides with the fifth meeting of the AfriNIC Government Working Group (AfGWG) has as intention to strengthen collaboration between AfriNIC, African Governments and regulators on building an African Internet infrastructure for the future. AfriNIC is the Regional Internet Registry (RIR) for Africa, responsible for the distribution and management of Internet number (domain names) resources throughout the African region, provide professional and efficient distribution of Internet number resources to the African Internet community as well as support Internet technology usage and development across the continent.
Prior to the meeting of Internet experts which ends on November 25, Cameroon's chapter of the Internet Society, which is an international organisation, last Friday November 18 re-launched its activities which had been dormant for over ten years. The Deputy Secretary General of the Cameroon Chapter of Internet Society, Aminou Ndala Tita, said their global initiative is to regulate the use of Internet in the Cameroonian society, especially at a time when cyber criminality is on the increase. Stating that not everybody has access to the Internet as well as the capacity to use the Internet, Aminou Tita underlined that Internet service providers need to be educated so that they will link to the general public alongside the laws therein.
In partnership with the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications and the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC), the Cameroon Chapter of the Internet Society is taking a national approach in tackling Internet problems, examine the politics of the internet which is no longer technical, but more political, particularly regarding the issues of security as well as look at the next generation of Internet users. The experts say they do not only want to look at the Internet as a tool for communicating but also to build a generation that will be able to develop and contribute to the sustainability of the Internet which is changing from IP Version four to IP Version six because of space.
 
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