Regional workshop for Africa - Strengthening cooperation on cybercrime and electronic evidence in the region: Challenges and solutions

  17 November

  EN, FR, PT, AR
  9:00 to 10:50 CET
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Internet penetration and related services such as mobile-based financial services, are rapidly growing in Africa. This is accompanied by increasing cybercrime. Many countries in Africa have made it a priority to develop legal frameworks to efficiently criminalize offences against and by means of computers, permit domestic investigations and allow for effective international cooperation between criminal justice authorities, in line with international standards, in particular those of the Budapest and Malabo Convention. The benefits of cooperative approaches were confirmed on the occasion of the First Africa Forum on cybercrime in 2018 and again in the Second Africa Forum in June 2021. This workshop is to follow up on the agreement reached in these forums to further strengthen domestic and international cooperation on cybercrime in Africa as well as on the commitment by regional and international organisations to support such efforts. The specific aim is to identify concrete initiatives to be undertaken in the near future.

MODERATOR AND RAPPORTEUR

Jean-Robert Hountomey

African Union Cyber Security Expert Group
Moderator

Hein Dries

OCWAR-C Project
Rapporteur
SPEAKERS

Abdul Hakeem Ajijola

Chair of the African Union Cyber Security Expert Group

Albert Antwi-Boasiako

Acting Director-General, Cyber Security Authority, Ghana

Moctar Yedali

GFCE Africa Program Director

Dean Watkinson

Cybercrime Specialized Officer, INTERPOL

Papa Assane Touré

Magistrate, Deputy General Secretary of the Government, Senegal

Adel Jomni

Research professor, Business Law Centre, University of Montpellier