Lukong Pius Nyuylime
3 September 2008
Government equally signed an agreement with the Korean government for the latter to install a public key infrastructure in the country.
Cameroon's Information and Communication Technology will in a few years ahead witness a significant transformation, following the signing yesterday of two new agreements between the government, represented by the Minister of State for Posts and Telecommunications, Maigari Bello Bouba and the Mobile Money Cameroon consortium in the present of the Canadian High Commissioner to Cameroon, Jean Pierre Lavoie on the one hand and Cameroon and South Korea on the other.
The first agreement is expected to usher in a new set of multimedia centres, 300 of them, in the rural areas. According to the terms of the agreement, the centres will be constructed on or before 2015. The multimedia centres constitute a veritable tool of development for the rural area. They are expected to facilitate communication, render it cheaper and easier for the rural masses.
The initiative has come to crown government's policy of extending a hand of fellowship to the private sector, considering that the whole programme for bringing telecommunications nearer villagers through the construction of multimedia centres is costly. Government, the P and T boss told pressmen, may not be able to finance the whole programme which entails the building of multimedia centres in about 20,000 villages.
The private centres that Canada will construct will provide jobs for over 900 rural people mostly women.
The second agreement will enable the South Korean government to bring in a new security device for carrying electronic business more efficiently and at low cost. The Public Key Infrastructure will therefore be installed and this will necessitate three things: a certification authority, a registration authority and a technical architecture made up of server, computers etc.
The certificate to be delivered by the certification authority will be used in signing documents digitally to authentify the emission of documents.
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