The Executive Director Paul BARERA will part of panelists on “Creating content, dissemination and use” session at the Third Africa Internet governance forum taking place in Abuja from 10th to 12th July.
The third African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) will take place in Abuja, Nigeria from 10 to 12 July 2014. According to the Secretariat of the African Internet Governance Forum (AfIGF) at the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), this third AfIGF will discuss critical issues of relevance and concern to the Continent as part of a global 10-year review of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10). The Forum will also make recommendations for consideration and adoption by African governments and other stake-holders.
The Internet Governance Forum is one of the major outcomes of the 2005 World Summit on the Information Society. The African internet governance space was very active in the lead up to the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) in 2005 and became even more so after the Summit.
The session on content creation, dissemination and use will be moderated by Titilayo Akinbolanriwa from Google will be examining and discussing key issues related to content creation, dissemination and use. Key issues to discuss include: issue related to language, culture, intellectual property right and open source.
Despite the development on ICT infrastructure in Africa, the availability of relevant and local content is still a critical challenge. Most of information is in foreign language and does not respond to the local context. Therefore, there is a call for action to increase the availability of e-content which responds to the contact of each community.