A data base on
ICT in Cameroon
Cameroon is one of the countries
selected for the second phase of the SCAN-ICT project.
To this end, the official launchin of phase II
in Cameroon took place on January 05, 2006. This
phase which aims to carry out a survey of the
penetration and the use of communication and information
technologies in Cameroon, thus started by the formation
of enquetors at the National School
of Posts and Telecommunications
of Yaounde from 05 to 06 January , 2006.
The project profits from the support
of the Economic Commission of the United Nations
for Africa (ECA) and it will be question at the
end of this investigation of identifying and
of
evaluating the existing means of communication
on the one hand and, in the other hand, to evaluate
the level of knowledge, use and penetration of
the
ICT and in particular of the Internet. The collected
data thus will make it possible to work out with
the assistance of the Ministry of Posts and
Télécommunications and the National
Institute of the Statistics, of the reliable statistics
on the ICT in Cameroon.
It should be noted that SCAN-ICT
programme was born from the report made by the
ECA that the African States, in spite of efforts
made in term of programs
of Information and Communication
Technologies for the development, face the lack
of precise, reliable and up to date statistical
data in the
field. To measure Information
and Communication Technologies for the development
and to find the good indicators are consequently
a great challenge
for all African countries. Recognizing this fact,
the ECA and its partners launched the Scan-ICT
programme in November 2000 as a joint project between
the ECA and the programme ACACIA of the Research
center for the International Development (CRDI),
with the financial support of the European Union
(EU) and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation
(NORAD).
The purpose of the Scan-ICT programme
is to develop the capacities of the African countries
in the collection, the treatment and the distribution
of the statistics on ICT for development. Scan-ICT
will set up the framework for indicators of ICT
at the service of development which will be
useful for the formulation and follow-up of the
national strategies (NICI), decision-making help
for the projects of investments, as well as the
evaluation of the impacts of the ICT on the development
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