Africa Internet Governance Forum 2025

To work properly, the Internet must be resilient. but with the new technology coming (IoT, AI, etc.), Internet users are more worried about their data and their private life.

Users need to be confident that by using Internet, they won't put their data (political, financial, personal, etc.) at the risk of being illegitimately used against their interest.
Free data flow is one of the elements of success of an open Internet and especially for the development of applications using Data to provide services and solutions.

So, there is a tradeoff to find between an open and resilient Internet with free data flow and the protection of the Internet users' data from illegitimate collection, processing, storage, transfer, etc. for malicious purpose.

This session, organized in a hybrid mode, will try to enumerate the criteria that have to be satisfied to make the resilient Internet better trusted by all users.

Speakers will address this topic from several angles such as the ethical aspect, legal aspect, technical aspect, etc.
For instance, Mr. Tijani BEN JEMAA, Member of PIR Advisory Council and former Chair of the North African Internet Governance Forum will introduce the topic and explain how to make the resilient Internet better trusted, and Mr. Mohamed Farahat, Lawyer & researcher, and currently Member of the UN Secretary General’s Advisory Body on Artificial Intelligence will address the topic from the legal angle, while Ms. Mary Uduma, a Nigerian business executive, a two times President of Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) and the chairperson of Nigeria Internet Governance Forum will address it from the ethical angle.

A good amount of the session duration will be dedicated to the interaction from the floor, allowing for constructive debate and opinion exchange.

The moderator will take questions to speakers and contributions from the floor, alternating between in-person and online participants. He/she will insure the diversity of contributors (gender, geography, stakeholder group, etc.) .