Combating Cybercrimes : SW Intensifies Anti-crime Strategies

To match with the commitment of the Head of State for Cameroon’s emergence by 2035, and to weed out the growing cases of cyber malpractice in the South West Region, a timely seminar has been organized by the National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (French acronym, ANTIC) in the South West Regional capital, Buea, from 11 through 13 November, 2020. The training involves participants from Ministries, municipal councils, the military, the Police and other relevant services. 
Granting that cyber malpractice can frustrate Cameroon’s emergence, ANTIC wove the content of lectures at the Buea seminar to empower the various services in the fight against crimes of cyber space. As such, participants were skilled in the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) with emphasis on information security, protection of personal data, as well as foreseeing, managing and sanctioning cybercrimes. 
Major themes were developed at the seminar to include “Cyber security and cyber criminality: the Legal and Regulatory framework in Cameroon”, “data protection and electronic certification”, ”Data protection with security audit”, “Information security”, “ICTs Applications, Products and Services using Office Software (Microsoft Word, Excel and Google, inclusively), and the “Protection of personal data and online privacy).
“Digital innovations have the ability to help Cameroon leapfrog many of her developmental challenges’, Professor Ebot Ebot Enaw who is General Manager of ANTIC, explained as he opened the Bue...