Cameroon says 37 of 40 government bodies now use secure electronic signatures 🇨🇲 ✍🏾

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Cameroon says it is close to finishing a major step in digitizing its government. On October 15, 2026, at the opening of the E-Gov’A trade show at the Yaoundé Conference Centre, Public Service and Administrative Reform Minister Joseph Le announced that 37 of the country’s 40 administrations have adopted secure electronic signatures, a rate of 92.5%. The figure points to real progress in moving procedures online, though adoption is not the same as use.

E-signatures at the heart of administrative modernization 🔐

Cameroon’s digital legal framework was built step by step. According to Digital Business Africa, Law No. 2010/021 of December 21, 2010 on electronic commerce gave electronic signatures legal recognition, and a Prime Minister’s decree dated February 27, 2013 marked their operational launch.

The trade show is held under the impetus of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications, led by Minette Libom Li Likeng. She stresses the role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in how institutions function and how people reach public services. In her view, ICT improve the conditions in which citizens exercise their rights, businesses grow and institutions carry out their missions.

Minister Le also set a target: reaching 100% before the end of 2026. Digital Business Africa presents Cameroon as ahead of some African peers, such as Burkina Faso, which launched its national e-signature platform, FasoSign, on September 15, 2026.

Aigles, an app built for civil servants 📱

At the Ministry of Public Service, the push takes concrete form in an app called Aigles. State employees can use it to view and download electronically signed career documents and payslips, and to follow the progress of their files from a smartphone.

The app launched on January 1, 2025. According to Digital Business Africa, it logged more than 6.4 million connections a year after launch. That shows how much the platform is accessed, but it does not tell us how many distinct users there are, nor how usage has evolved since.

E-Gov’A 2026: a showcase to assess progress 🖥️

Held from October 14 to 17, 2026, the show brings public and private players together for live demos, masterclasses, cybersecurity workshops and a hackathon. Aigles is among the solutions on display, alongside others the event is meant to showcase and put to the test.

Discussions stress the need to move beyond siloed initiatives toward interoperability between ministries’ platforms, and the importance of keeping control over national data.

A well-advanced reform, with usage still to be measured ⚖️

The 37-of-40 figure is a useful marker of how far the reform has come: three administrations remain before the announced 100% target. But adopting a tool does not measure how much it is used, or what citizens actually gain, and the sources reviewed do not document that yet.

The challenge now is to consolidate use of these tools so that procedures get easier for people and institutions run more smoothly.

Do electronic signatures and apps like Aigles make Cameroon’s public services more accessible and efficient? Tell us what you think in the comments.