Abstract
The EGOV.CM programme, led by the National Agency for ICT (ANTIC) aims to promote access to government information and services, provide IT support to the public administration reform programme, promote the objectives of national policies and provide an appropriate legal and regulatory environment. However, government and citizen reliance on ICTs presents a security challenge, given the emergence of cybercrime across the globe. This requires changes tolegislation drafted before the electronic age. Outdated laws result in impunity, with the country a safe haven for cybercriminals, while e-government transactions may be unprotected and may therefore be discouraged. Cameroon's e-laws of 2010 (cybersecurity and electronic communications) provide a legal framework for the protection of ICT networks and critical infrastructures, creating an enabling environment for e-government services. These research notes highlight the importance of the e-laws for effective Cameroonian public administration, and discuss the challenges for implementation of e-government
Highlights
TO E-GOVERNMENT IN CAMEROONThe last 13 years have witnessed an era of initiatives to develop and harness the benefits of ICT for the nation’s development. Mokube (2010) sketches a brief history of movement towards e-government, noting the following events
The 1998 laws (Telecommunications Law No 98/014 of July 1998 and Telecommunications Law No 98/014 of July 1998) provide the legal backing for ICT evolution in Cameroon. These laws brought an end to monopoly control in the telecommunication sector in Cameroon
Protecting critical network infrastructures requires a comprehensive view of security that combines physical, digital and procedural components. These components provide the level of cybersecurity necessary to guard against the many known and unknown threats in cyberspace
Summary
The last 13 years have witnessed an era of initiatives to develop and harness the benefits of ICT for the nation’s development. Mokube (2010) sketches a brief history of movement towards e-government, noting the following events. Further progress in legislation was made in 2001, instituting minimum service standards in the telecommunications sector through a series of decrees laying down the modalities for the operation of telecommunications networks and the provision of telecommunications services (Law No 2001/0130 of 23 July 2001) These developments led to an opening up of citizens’ and business demand for ICT availability. The PRIMO project provides online tender documents (Mokube 2010; Kamga, 2011) Each of these e-administration programmes requires network security and ways of preventing or reducing cybercrime. Protecting critical network infrastructures requires a comprehensive view of security that combines physical, digital and procedural components These components provide the level of cybersecurity necessary to guard against the many known and unknown threats in cyberspace. For the purposes of this discussion, only a few issues relevant to e-government are discussed, noting that e-government is understood to incorporate forms of e-commerce
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