AfICTF attends African Union (AU) Training Workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Furtherance to the actualisation of the African Union (AU) agenda 2063, which is the Africa's blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future; and in line with the African ICT Foundation's foremost aim and objective the African ICT Foundation, an independent not-for-profit making organization whose mission is to formulate, evaluate, and promote ICT and telecoms policies that accelerate innovations and boost productivity to spur growth, create job opportunities, and progress in Africa was among the few dependable non-profit-organisation NGO invited to attend the AU internet governance training workshop in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The African ICT Foundation's Regional Director for West Africa, Dr. Kossi Amessinou who represented the organisation expresses optimism that the workshop which lasted for 5 days and covers strategic Africa's ICT developments such as Digital divide and development, The Digital Economy and Internet Governance, Legal and Regulatory Aspects of Internet Governance, Cybersecurity and Critical Information Infrastructure Protection, Internet Infrastructure, Architecture, Standards, and Protocols among other topics was a pointer to Africa's liberation from innovative stagnation.