The emergence of the information society in Cameroon has caused a number of disturbances, not least through civil society’s involvement in the formulation of policies and strategies relating to ICT appropriation. For those familiar with the Cameroonian Government’s tradition of secret-keeping, overcautiousness, and jealous protection of its prerogatives, recourse to third parties in formulating policies and strategies is a paradigmatic change, and one which cannot simply be explained by the complexity of the ICT phenomenon, the size of the challenges or pressure from international cooperation organisations .
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