even the developing nations governments --- Not only the IGO and NGOs but also the governments from the developing word mostly lagging behind at the discussions on the matters related to the Internet governance and the cybersecurity discussion in the multilateral forums, and very true this requires an investment in time, skills and human resource and interest, as most of them this issue as secondary and unimportant issues and focusing the basic livelihood challenges. as a matter of fact, the only African union's convention on cybersecurity and personal data protection adopted in 2014 is not in force due to the lack of meaningful participation of the states during the drafting and the discussions and the skepticism after the approval to rectify it.

Source author: Mustafa Yaasin Sheik mysheik@hotmail.com