The project is aimed fighting against online threats ranging from misinformation, scam, identity theft and cyber bullying in efforts designed to address and counter hate speech, stigmatization and xenophobia on the internet. It has an overall target of reaching over 500,000 young Cameroonians.
The Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng has launched the 2025 edition of the Cameroon Digital Citizenship Festival. She flagged of the activity during an event organized in Yaounde yesterday Wednesday June 11. The series will run from June 11 to July 24 under the theme “Let us all commit to patriotic digital citizenship.” The Cameroon Digital Citizenship Festival is among others, intended to educate, protect and engage young Cameroonians in the face of digital threats, while inspiring patriotic citizenship in the digital age.
The 2025 festival is organized by CODAM Technologies, a structure that is specialized in raising awareness on digital citizenship and cybersecurity among young people in Cameroon and digital education and prevention of cyber threats. The body is organizing the event in partnership with the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications under the patronage of the Minister of Posts and Telecommunications, Minette Libom Li Likeng. Speaking during the launching ceremony yesterday, Minister Libom Li Likeng said the government is aiming to directly sensitize 10,000 youth on the responsible and patriotic use of the internet.
She revealed that the State is equally looking to train 1,500 other young people as peer educators in the course of the festival to boost the project’s overall target of sensitizing some 500,000 youth. She said the activity will be organized in two phases: the regional and national series, focusing on raising awareness among Cameroonian youth on the challenges of cybersecurity with particular attention on digital citizenship and responsibility. She announced that the activities will be centered around the fight against online threats ranging from misinformation, scam, identity theft and cyberbullying in an effort to address and counter hate speech, stigmatization and xenophobia on the internet. “Since 2020, we have been involved in the national campaign for the promotion of cyber security and aware- ness raising on the responsible use of social media.
Through this festival, we want to touch everybody to ensure that they measure the consequences when they use hate messages,” Minister Libom Li Likeng said. “The aim is to have people become more responsible of what they are doing on social media. We aim to strengthen young people’ s capacities in the responsible use of digital technologies, while nurturing a deep sense of attachment to our nation” she added.
Cameroonian sociologist, Prof Armand Leka Essomba told pressmen in an interview after the launching ceremony that the festival is a timely scheme that will play great role in boosting positive behavioral changes. “I believe that social networks actually open a practical boulevard that has a very important impact on behavior. That is why I believe that this festival, as a moral and citizen coalition, aims to accompany the different users, who, very open, due to several reasons, are illiterate, do not know sometimes either the risks they run, or the vulnerabilities they are exposed to the addictions that can aggravate their own lives,” he said.
