Western Africa

Project

Increasing e-Participation in West Africa

Beneficiary Countries

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cabo Verde
• + 13 more

Beneficiary groups

• Pan W. Africa

Implementors

• United Nations – Development Programme (UNDP)

Themes & Topics

• Cyber Security Policy and Strategy
• Strategies

Increasing e-Participation in West Africa

Activity: To enhance and disseminate knowledge about e-participation practices in West Africa. Aims: How to increase the transparency of the political process, enhance citizens’ direct participation in democratic processes and decision-making, and improve the quality of opinion formation — opening up new spaces for information and deliberation.

Project

Regional Seminar on the Harmonisation of Cyberlegislation in ECOWAS

Beneficiary Countries

• Benin
• Burkina Faso
• Cabo Verde
• + 13 more

Beneficiary groups

• Pan W. Africa

Implementors

• United Nations – Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)

Themes & Topics

• Cybercrime

Regional Seminar on the Harmonisation of Cyberlegislation in ECOWAS

Aims / objectives: The objectives were to strengthen the capacity and the expertise of the delegates, to review the current situation of cyber legislation in the ECOWAS region and to discuss the best ways to advance the cyberlaw harmonization process in the areas of e-transactions, data protection and cybercrime as […]