📋 Tender Overview
The III Meeting of the Specialized Technical Committee STC-CICT3 of African ministers responsible for Communication and Information and Communication Technologies CICT adopted the statement Sharm El Sheikh 2019 which highlights the role of digital technologies and innovation in achieving the vision and objectives of the 2063 Agenda of the African Union AU and the UN Sustainable Development Goals.This digital transformation strategy for Africa is based on basic pillars and critical sectors to promote digital transformation and cross-cutting issues to support the digital ecosystem focusing especially on the African Digital Transformation Strategy DTS and the Communication of the African Union AU and the Defense Strategy CAS as well as the guide of communication style and brand of the UA.The CAS for the 2018-2023 period identifies and prioritizes the key activities that will be implemented to ensure that the AU is seen as a people-centered organization and the only truly Pan-African organization that works to ensure inclusive and sustainable growth for the Africans and their citizens.At the end of the meeting the ministers agreed to open the DTS for online contributions until November 8 2019 requesting the UA Commission to finalize the document before November 11 and present it for consideration and adoption in the AU summit in January 2020. The commission was also ordered to launch the AU Media Awards and the African Factbook.Therefore the ministers requested member states to accelerate the ratification of the Malabo Convention on cybersecurity and protection of personal data promoting and implementing DTS as the common digitalization agenda for the continent using the Digital Platform for Policy and Regulation Initiatives for Digital Africa PRIDA as a space to build an African Common Position and including postal digitization in both national priorities and digital strategies.
