ABSTRACT
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) is a diverse geographical region made up of a combination of 15 coastal, landlocked, and island countries. The region has experienced growth in access to the Internet attributable to an increase in mobile Internet penetration (GSMA, 2018) and the improvement in the expansion of infrastructure, policy and regulatory harmonization of the ICT sector. Access to various submarine cables has made connectivity to the world-wide network possible with most of the coastal countries connected to at least one submarine cable whist the landlocked countries have at least two routes to submarine cables through coastal countries. Meanwhile, the region has adopted common policies and regulations to attract more investment and enable a faster development of the sector in order to achieve the digital transformation of the region.
