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DRC foreign minister urges developing countries' role in tech standards
Original: “Developing countries cannot be reduced to the role of mere users of technologies designed elsewhere, nor should be the
Democratic Republic of Congo's Foreign Minister Therese Kayikwamba Wagner said developing countries cannot be reduced to mere users of technologies designed elsewhere, nor mere recipients of standards and norms they did not adequately help shape. Her remarks call for greater participation by the Global South in setting international technology governance and standards.
Why now: African and developing nations are pushing for a bigger voice in global technology and standards governance.
Therese Kayikwamba WagnerDemocratic Republic of CongoUnited Nations
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- “Developing countries cannot be reduced to the role of mere users of technologies designed elsewhere, nor should be the mere recipients of standards & norms they did not adequately participate in shaping” ~ FM Therese Kayikwamba Wagner DRC middle-east-online.com/en/developin...… · cecallihelper.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy · 5
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