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About Us

Our Vision

To see an Africa that is fully matured in e-Governance and Internet Governance participation and development.

Our Vision

To see an Africa that is fully matured in e-Governance and Internet Governance participation and development.

Capacity Building
School on Internet Governance 63%
E-Governance Reserach
Perform Research on Internet Governance 93%
International Affiliations
Join Policy sessions on Internet Governance 78%
Team Building
Dedicated Team Building with Tech expertise 99%

Here is a brief history of ours

E-Governance and Internet Governance Foundation for Africa (EGIGFA) is a fully registered organisation in Ghana. It is established with the purpose of advocating and enhancing e-governance, internet governance, digital rights and inclusion, and cybersecurity, etc activities in Africa and beyond.
In order to successfully execute the mandates of EGIGFA, two other sub entities are established: Ghana School on Internet Governance (GhanaSIG) and Internet Governance Club. These sub entities, help us in our outreach and engagement activities.
EGIGFA also serves as an avenue to reach out to the various governmental agencies in Africa responsible for ensuring effective e-governance issues are handled well to be informed, trained, and enlightened on what to do. This ensures that African countries perform well and get better ratings in the United Nation’s e-governance survey. This survey measures and rates the e-governance performances of member states and the African countries do not have good ratings.

EGIGFA has strong collaboration with other industry experts and belongs to other entities as well. Below are details of the various partners:

  1. AFRINIC (African Network Information Centre)
  2. Paradigm Innitiative, Nigeria
  3. E-Governance Academy, Estonia
  4. OriginalMy, Brazil
  5. Ghana representative for the We The Internet Project – Mission Publique

EGIGFA is also an organisational member of the below entities:

  1. West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI)
  2. Recognised Civil Society Organisation (CSO) within the African Development Bank
  3. Noncommercial Stakeholder Group (NCSG) – ICANN
  4. Non-commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) – ICANN
  5. Not-for-Profit Operational Concerns (NPOC) – ICANN
  6. At-Large Structure (ALS) within the AFRALO – ICANN
  7. The global Network of Internet & Society Centers (NoC)
  8. Global Cyber Alliance
  9. World Benchmarking Alliance

Our Core Objectives

Act as an outreach and advocacy body on e-governance and internet governance in Africa and beyond.

Advice, guide and plan activities to enhance e-governance and internet governance to governments, governmental agencies, international agencies, corporate bodies and individuals.

Organize capacity building, conferences, workshops and other events on e-governance and internet governance related activities in Africa.

Bring together people who are interested in e-governance and internet governance related issue.

Register and organize the Ghana School on Internet Governance.

Operate a club called Internet Governance Club. This is to operate in schools, tertiary institutions, and at the community levels locally and internationally.

Our Core Values

Integrity

We believe Integrity counts in everything. In the context of an Internet development organization such as ours, we believe integrity of data, communications and processes ensure trust for our work.

Transparency

We endeavor to ensure clear and understandable processes for both internal and external stakeholders.

Openness

The scale and growth of the global Internet has been shaped by open-standards, and we believe that this principle of openness applies to our work as we intend to scale and grow.

Freedom

We believe that the rights and freedoms enjoyed offline should also apply online. We also believe that people should be free to have access to Internet tools to express themselves to enforce their rights.

Humanity

Compassion and the desire to do good and do well underlies our work and gives us the energy, passion and enthusiasm for our work.

Timeless

We take timely actions and intervention very seriously. We do everything to make sure every engagement meets scheduled timelines.