The Collaboration
on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa (CIPESA) has
said that all is now set for the fifth edition of the Forum on Internet Freedom
in Africa (FIFAfrica) in Accra, capital of Ghana, reports ITREALMS.
This year, ITREALMS gathered that the Forum to be hosted in
partnership with the Media
Foundation West Africa (MFWA) would take place from Wednesday, September
26 through Friday, September 28, 2018.
Also, the forum prides itself as a landmark event that convenes
various stakeholders from the internet governance and online rights arenas in
Africa and beyond to deliberate on gaps, concerns and opportunities for
advancing privacy, access to information, free expression, non-discrimination
and the free flow of information online on the continent.
According to Juliet Nanfuka, the Research and Communications
Officer at CIPESA, since inception, FIFAfrica has also served as a platform to mark the
International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI).
Engagements at the Forum, she said, aim to reflect current
trends and concerns in access and usage of the internet and related
technologies on the continent.
“As such, each year has seen the launch of themed research on
the State of
Internet Freedom in Africa. Last year, we also launched a key report
on Calculating
the Economic Cost of Internet Disruptions in Sub-Saharan Africa,” she said.
While the 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions of FIFAfrica were hosted
in Uganda, in 2017, the Forum was hosted in Johannesburg, South Africa in
partnership with the Association
for Progressive Communications (APC), an international network and
non-profit organisation that works towards a free and open internet.
Indeed, spreading the physical footprint of FIFAfrica across
different regions of the continent ensures that the Forum lives up to its goal
of unpacking internet freedom challenges and opportunities in sub-regions of
Africa and developing responses that are collaborative, and informed by
insights from the experience of other sub-regions of the continent.
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