At a press conference held on Tuesday 21 January 2020 at the NOVOTEL in Cotonou, Ms Aurélie ADAM SOULE ZOUMAROU presented the 2020 digital and digitalisation agenda to media and press professionals, consumer associations and key stakeholders of Benin’s digital ecosystem.
During this meeting, the Minister of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation set out five (5) main areas of achievement that the sector will pursue in 2020.
These include:
1. High-speed and ultra-high-speed internet for all;
2. The construction of 26 digital classrooms in secondary and higher education institutions, as well as 03 digital classrooms adapted for people with visual impairments;
3. The digitisation of the formalities for obtaining certain administrative documents through the launch of the Beninese administration portal;
4. The operationalisation of the digital entrepreneurship support fund
Digital Week (SENUM), the Benin Digital Tour in institutions equipped with digital classrooms and other regular initiatives have been kept in the sector’s 2020 Agenda.
Ms Aurelie ADAM SOULE ZOUMAROU also engaged with media and press professionals, answering their questions and taking care to explain the innovations in the projects of the 2020 Agenda. Finally, she invited stakeholders of the digital ecosystem to work to promote the progress made under the Government Action Programme in the digital economy sector.