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The complete topic the IGF Cameroon will cover will treat about about Accelerating the Digital Transformation looking at which Adjustments for the Deployment of Resilient Infrastructures? The African leadership’s style will determine the way in which Africa will be involved in the discussions currently underway regarding the digital future worldwide. It is indeed imperative that every stakeholder in Africa plays its full role in order to ensure an effective participation of the continent in global debates on the present and future of Digital. Digital Transformation Acceleration Needs The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated Africa's digital transformation by highlighting the digital divide in most of its regions, thus giving rise to necessary adjustments in but not limited to the following points: Implement effective policies for the unconnected and for the disconnected; Ensure the collaboration of all actors involved in the issue of digital inclusion to provide digital access to all; Use existing Universal Service Fund resources available in most of our countries to build sustainable digital infrastructure in all African countries. The Digital Divide Africa should take advantage of the opportunity presented by COVID-19 to bridge the digital divide. Hence, the key infrastructures in which African countries should primarily invest and cope with the fast changes are the submarine cables which must be deployed throughout the continent. Policy and Regulatory Framework An adjustment in terms of digital policies and international law that clearly regulates Africa's Internet space must imperatively be put in place. Also, digital policies and appropriate regulatory frameworks in Africa should support the technologies currently being deployed to facilitate access to those submarine cables for and by all operators. In that regard, it would be wise to multiply and facilitate the different African perspectives through international meetings such as the IGF, ICANN, AFRINIC, WSIS, etc., where these issues are widely discussed. Similarly, the progress of our participation and involvement must be a priority; in the sense that it will be necessary to ensure that our governments, regulators and actors of other stakeholders, take a place and intervene on a regular basis in these governance spaces to ensure that African interests and points of view in general and those of Cameroon, and of each of the stakeholders of its sub-ecosystem, in particular on issues relating to digital and Internet development are known. Difficulties and Challenges The difficulties faced by institutions (university, private sector, OCS, etc.) in Africa and more especially in Cameroon for access to infrastructure and the Internet are increasingly enormous. It is therefore important to talk about the evolution and management of Internet resources in recent years and the difficulties encountered during the Covid-19 pandemic.