CAMEROON AND INTERNET

                         In Cameroon today many people get addicted to their smartphones, computers and other digital devices. This effect is mostly noticed on the younger polpulation this not new but can be very shocking when statics of the usage of those different device start entering. Again many youth spend their time doing almost nothing important on the web. Normaly a good part but few concentrate on it for educational purposes or business.

                      Now let first answer to one primordial question, how was internet all about in Cameroon. In 1996 internet began to be regularly mentioned in the speeches of Cameroonian officials . The project to bring the network of networks in Cameroon mentions a dull battle between three large state structures, namely the Polytechnic of Yaounde, National Informatics Centre (Cenadi) and Intelcam (International Telecommunications Company ), for the management point cm (Cameroon). Intelcam is chosen, which becomes CAMTEL (Cameroon Telecommunications) three years later .

February 1997 Cameroonian Prime Minister Peter Mafany Musonge inaugurates cm node in Yaoundé. We discovers the internet arrives in Cameroon with an American firm, ATT (http://www.att.com/).September 1997 the first private cafe moved to Douala, the Web café , the work of a Cameroonian engineer residing in the United States.March 1999 a private operator, Jean Adolphe Ngangué Nseke, installs its own antenna in Douala, with the help of Canadians.April 1999 Cameroon signed an agreement with Teleglobe (http://www.teleglobe.ca/), a Canadian company, which installs a second channel of arrival of the internet in the country inDouala. The people of the economic capital grow a sigh of relief, those who were forced to go through Yaoundé, with what it entails technical difficulties. The internet takes off in Douala.

            As we can notice internet in Cameroon was for an educational purpose, looking at all the institutions who fought for it. But today internet use has greatly increased in cameroon, since more and more people get now connected to the world wide web.

                

             Also the rate of internet development in this country without the appropriate maintenance and control causes the main foundation of piracy and addiction. In Cameroon the rate or percentage of internet piracy is more than 80%....which is very critical.

             

               Also internet growth in cameroon has also increase the economy of the country and also it's external relationship with other more digitally developed countries which continuously bring their aide to Cameroon. It is not to doubt that our economy really increased with internet growth.

It is also important to notice that it also mostly due to eCommerce and eMarketing that the economy has greatly 

This is mostly due to young but great eCommerce institutions such as ;

But Yeah!!!!!!!! It is true that internet really improved this few years in Cameroon .  In both advantages and disadvantages but there is still along way to go. Thanks for reading , Hope you now know all the implication of internet in Cameroon and how it has evolved over time from 20th or 21th century.

N.T. Towa Paulin

Cameroon, Yaounde.