The growth and impact of electronic means of communication and business has seen the government of the Republic of Cameroon enact favorable laws aimed at regulating and promoting e-commerce in Cameroon.
E-commerce has become a cost-effective method through which business can be done between Cameroon and other countries of the globe.
E-commerce comprises of the buying and selling of goods and services online. However, the law on electronic commerce has made provision for a wide range of definition which fall within the scope of the 2010 law regulating electronic commerce in Cameroon. Some of such definitions are as follows;
- Commercial Activity: any activity involving the production and exchange of goods and electronic media, by any natural or legal person in accordance with the provisions of legal person in accordance with the provisions of the laws, regulations or agreements statutory, regulatory or contractual texts governing trade;
- Electronic Certificate: electronic document secured by the electronic signature of the person who issued it, which attests to the veracity of its content;
- Qualified Electronic Certificate: electronic certificate issued by an approved certification provider;
- Electronic Mail: any message, in the form of text, voice, sound or image sent over a communications network, stored on a network server or in the recipient’s terminal on a network server or in the recipient’s terminal equipment, until it is retrieved by the recipient;
- Electronic Signature Creation Device: set of equipment and/or private encryption software, approved by a competent authority, configured to create an electronic signature;
- Electronic Signature Verification Device: a set of equipment and/or public encryption software, approved by a competent authority, enabling the verification of an electronic signature by a certification authority.
- Electronic Document: set of data recorded or stored on any medium on any medium by a computer system or similar device which can be read or device and which can be read or perceived by a person or by such a system or such a system or device. This also includes any display and output or other output of such data;
- Signature Creation Data: unique data, such as codes or private cryptographic codes or private cryptographic keys, which the signatory uses to create an electronic create an electronic signature;
- Electronic Payment Instrument: instrument enabling the holder to to carry out remote payment transactions via telecommunications networks;
- Electronic Signature: signature obtained using an asymmetric encryption algorithm to authenticate the sender of a message and verify its integrity etc.
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