(Business in Cameroon) - The Cameroonian Minister of Trade, Lucile Magloire Mbarga Atangana, defended on 28 March 2017 in front of members in Parliament, the bill authorizing the President to proceed with the ratification, on behalf of Cameroon, of the United Nations Convention on the Use of Electronic Communications in International Contracts, adopted on 23 November 2005 in New York.

This tool developed by the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITL), Minister Mbarga Atangana specified, puts particular “emphasis on the fact that the increase use of electronic communications could improve the efficiency of trade activities, to strengthen trade relations, and offer new opportunities to previously isolated markets…”

The governmental procedures to join this international mechanism come in a context characterized by the digital boom in Cameroon. Actually, the country recently adopted a digital economy development plan, which requires FCfa 600 billion in funding.

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