Supporting multistakeholder Internet public policy dialogue in a least developed country

Organizations such as the Association for Progressive Communications, the African Network Information Center (AfriNIC) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa have been instrumental in laying the foundations and creating the platform for policy dialogue on the continent in the past decade. [...] Key messages from the survey include the importance of broad stakeholder participation that involves the government and private sectors in Internet public policy making, and the importance of broadband access, essential for the economic and social development of Togo. [...] IISD REPORT JULY 2012© 2012 The International Institute for Sustainable Development Supporting Multistakeholder Internet Public Policy Dialogue in a Least Developed Country: The Togo Experience 2 The report concludes with a set of recommendations for specific actions by the government, private sector and other non-state actors and the need for more industry-focused research on the role that the In [...] Countries would have to adopt and adapt them to their local contexts in order to address the growing concerns of trust and security in the Internet domain and to do so in such a way that the policies they create respond to the dynamism and rapid evolution of the Internet. [...] This unstable political climate called for the delineation of concrete steps to address policy challenges in all sectors and in particular the ICT sector, including the creation of a new ministry that would be responsible for ICTs, and the need to engage this ministry and the government with ongoing national and continental policy initiatives such as those spearheaded by the UNECA under the NICI (