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    Media expert urges practitioners to checkmate rising online regulation in Africa

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    The  Lead Strategist at DigitalSENSE Africa Media group, Mr. Remmy Nweke has called on media owners and digital rights defenders-based civil society organization to take proactive steps that will checkmate the rising Internet shutdowns across Africa.

    Nweke made the call, while speaking at the at the 2018 Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica2018) which held at La Palm Beach Resort, Accra, Ghana.

    He noted that no matter how small the size of a media organization, it is expedient for such organization to have what he described an online regulatory desk and regulatory officers, who should ordinarily interface with law makers and policy makers at the government levels.

    Armed with these proactive options, Nweke said both the media, practitioners and CSO will checkmate the obnoxious laws ahead of time, especially as they pose threat to Internet development on the continent.

    “These options will help stakeholders to see early enough some of the inclines of gagging and stifling media especially online and alarm could be triggered for early-sign warnings to the larger society, sensitization and rejection of such moves,” he said.

     

    Nweke who spoke extensively at the session on “Trends in online regulation in Africa” during FiFAfrica 2018, was accompanied in the panel by Sakah Bernard Nsaidzedze of Pan African University in Cameroun; Legal practitioner and media trainer, Mr. Zakaria Tanko Musah of Ghana Institute of Journalism, an independent analyst, Nanjala Nyabola, and Sellina Sheena Nkowani from the Nation Publications, Malawi.

    According to him, he believe in tackling this kind of menace from the source if possible, which requires proactive monitoring, rather than waiting until such laws have been passed and online stakeholders will commence damage control, which takes  a longer time, resources to reverse.

    Nweke, who is the Vice President of African Civil Society on Information Society (ACSIS), commended the Nigeria Press Organistions (NPO) including the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Guild of Editors, Guild of Corporate Online Publishers, as well as Guild of Professional Bloggers in Nigeria for their efforts recently in ensuring stoppage of the obnoxious Nigerian Press Council Act 1992 (Repeal and Enactment Bill 2018) which was agreed to have even semblance of horrible Decree 4 of 1984 and Decree 43 of 1993.

    Recalling that in Tanzania, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Burundi, Zambia, Benin Republic and lately Kenya as countries in Africa that have in 2018 proposed or passed laws and regulations that undermine public confidence in the use of online platforms and could lead to increased self-censorship by media, civil society groups and individual citizens, as well as to their withdrawal from online discourse.

    “We recently saw the Kenyan government proclamation on some 15 per cent Internet tax,” he said, lamenting that before now, Kenya has been one of the torch bearer as far as Internet adaptation on the continent is concerned.

    Cameroon, Mr. Nweke who represents the Non-Profit Organizations Constituency (NPOC) of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) at Non-Commercial Stakeholders Group (NCSG) Finance said, has become notorious for being the longest interruptions to digital communications in a bid to control online assembly and the flow of information in the Central African Republic.

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