ECOWAS Experts Forum on e-Government: The ECOWAS Commission supports Member States in their digital transformation through the World Bank-funded West Africa Regional Digital Integration Project (WARDIP).
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, together with experts from member states, is analysing the main regional findings of the United Nations 2024 e-government survey, and enhancing their knowledge of the data governance implementation model supported by the three principles of Sustainable Goal 16 (accountability, effectiveness and inclusiveness), developed by the United Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), whose Public Institutions and Digital Government Division facilitated the forum.
At the forum held on 6 and 7 February 2025 in The Gambia, the Commission gave a brief overview of its new digital sector development strategy to guide the community’s action for the period from 2024 to 2029, the ambition of which is to ‘’Position ICTs as an engine for economic growth and inclusion, by pursuing the efforts to build a single digital market for sustainable and shared prosperity in the ECOWAS region‘’.