About 150 delegates from at the least 48 international locations have gathered since Tuesday, May 21, 2024 in Lomé, on the twenty first convention of the French-speaking telecommunications regulatory community (FRATEL).
In two days, the contributors are key members of the community of worldwide establishments (OIF, BCAO), managers and business gamers resembling operators, regional associations of regulators, tools producers, digital gamers, regulation corporations and consultants and shopper associations. will focus on the subject “knowledge financial system and digital providers: what are the technical and financial regulatory points? “.
This worldwide assembly, which is a part of the implementation of the 2024 plan, adopted on the final annual assembly of FRATEL, will enable French-speaking directors, members of Fratel, to replicate, alternatively, on the way forward for networks and purposes. regulation and, alternatively, knowledge and cellular cost markets.
» This convention will enable data to be shared between regulators from French-speaking international locations but additionally the theme is essential because it impacts the financial system of knowledge and cellular funds. These two subjects are essential in Togo, which signifies that in our digital transformation program, we have now a complete program devoted to knowledge consolidation and one other program devoted to digitizing funds. So this trade is essential to us as a rustic,” stated Cina Lawson, Minister for the Digital Economy and Digital Transformation.
For his half, Louis Marc Sakala, normal director and president of FRATEL, emphasised that the financial system of knowledge and cellular funds are issues that many international locations are dealing with.
He added that the primary problem in Africa in communication is infrastructure.
“We should put in place the infrastructure as a result of digital communications are the premise of all the things right now. If we shouldn’t have efficient communication techniques or efficient infrastructure, all different areas of growth, together with electrical energy, are disrupted,” stated Louis Marc Sakala.
The French-speaking Telecommunications Regulation Network (FRATEL) is a company of telecommunications regulatory authorities from French-speaking international locations. It is a framework for cooperation and sharing data and information between these regulatory authorities with a purpose to higher guarantee regulatory actions and thus help the event of the organic and environmental system in member international locations.
It was based in 2002 in Paris throughout a sequence of French-speaking directors. FRATEL was formally established on October 28, 2003 in Bamako, Mali by telecommunications regulators at their first annual assembly. Currently FRATEL has forty-eight (48) member international locations.
Rachel Doubidji