Bilateral With Cameroon's Permanent Representative to the African Union Takes Up Africa's Digital Agenda Ahead of the STC-CICT 08 October 2026, Addis Ababa. African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy H.E. @LDMataboge held a bilateral engagement with H.E. @EwumbueMonono, Ambassador and Permanent Representative of the Republic of Cameroon to the @_AfricanUnion and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (@ECA_OFFICIAL). The discussion centred on Africa's digital transformation and the instruments through which the Union carries it: the Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa (2020-2030), the Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy, the AU Data Policy Framework and the African Union Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection, whose ratification by Member States remains a continental priority. The engagement also took up preparations for the Sixth Ordinary Session of the Specialised Technical Committee on Communication and ICT, convened by the African Union Commission in collaboration with the Gabonese Republic in Libreville from 26 to 30 October 2026, where Ministers will consider progress on these frameworks and the new instruments before them, and Africa's preparation for the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in Doha. The Infrastructure and Energy Department, in the implementation of Agenda 2063, carries the engagement forward with the Permanent Mission of Cameroon and Member States on the road to Libreville. Bilateral Engagement. Permanent Mission of Cameroon to the African Union.

African Union Commission and Vodacom Group Forge Common Ground on Digital Infrastructure, AI and Connectivity Geneva, Switzerland, 08 July 2026 H.E. @LDMataboge, Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, held a bilateral meeting with Vodacom Group, represented by its Chief External Affairs Officer, Mr @aymanessam, on the margins of the @AIforGood Global Summit in Geneva. Vodacom operates across eight African markets, and its Vision 2030 strategy carries an ambition the African Union shares: connecting every African to the digital economy. Discussions centred on the foundations that ambition rests on. As artificial intelligence and satellite connectivity redefine what is possible for the continent, the Commissioner outlined the African Union's position, anchored in the Continental Artificial Intelligence Strategy and the Digital Transformation Strategy for Africa: artificial intelligence that is interoperable across jurisdictions, development-oriented, and built to serve African languages and realities. Digital trust, a central theme of this week's Summit, was recognised as the condition on which adoption depends. The meeting also addressed universal connectivity. Bridging rural coverage gaps will take complementary technologies, from fibre to low Earth orbit satellite, alongside the policy and affordability conditions that turn coverage into usage. The Commissioner welcomed the private sector's role in closing the mobile internet usage gap, whilst underlining that inclusion is measured at the last mile: rural communities, women and young people brought into the digital economy for the first time. Digital infrastructure runs on energy, and both sit squarely within the Department's mandate: digital infrastructure, digital public goods and artificial intelligence, alongside the renewable power, financing models and enabling policy needed to grow them sustainably. The Department promotes, coordinates and implements policies to develop world-class, integrated infrastructure and energy systems across the continent, in the implementation of Agenda 2063, and partnerships of this kind are how that work reaches people.