Country
Ethiopia

Source
Blog Article - by Abyssinia Law

Title
Dated 19 Jun 2015 | The State of Cybercrime Governance in Ethiopia by Halefom Hailu (see notes col)

About
Explores the efforts and initiatives being made by the government in fighting cybercrime from three cyberspace governance perspectives namely cyber security-related policies and strategies, legislative frameworks, and institutional arrangements. | Survey questionnaires distributed to 40 institutions that use ICT. Of the 40 institutions, 35 responded giving a response rate of 87.5%. | Respondents were 17 banks, 12 ICT institutions and 6 other institutions such as federal government agencies, Medias, and transport. | Covers the various laws and strategy in detail. | Defendant, Michael Worku, a bank clerk in Construction and Business Bank, created fictitious user ID to transfer and withdraw 9.9 million Ethiopia Birr from different bank accounts

Key findings
As of 2012, there were over 1 million Facebook users, 45% between age of 18-40. | Ethiopia is one of the top 10 African countries with the biggest number of Facebook users. | "there is also a huge potential user base that can make Ethiopia an ICT hub of Africa in the very near future" | Several ICT infrastructure development projects are also underway - construction of the EthioICT-Village - expected to generate ICT related jobs for approximately 300,000 employees. | ICT embraced by banking and financial sector, cash is still the most dominant medium of exchange, electronic-banking is started, electronic fund transfer was legally recognized for the first time in 2011 | there is a massive increase of internet access and internet user base is expanding V's cyber security governance at its very embryonic stage | 77.1% of respondents said that they do not set any organizational structure specifically dedicated to deal with cybercrime threats | Only 8.6% of the institutions (three banks) have specialized team responsible for cyber security incidents. | Reluctance to report incidents | Cybercrimes such as hacking, web defacement, malware attack and spam are the common and overwhelmingly growing cybercrimes in Ethiopia. These core cybercrimes, however, never entered the criminal justice system. | it can be concluded that most cybercrime incidents are not reported and those reported incidents are either gone off-track to traditional crimes or closed for lack of evidence.| Even though this was a cybercrime act for the defendant created fake user IDs and hack passwords of supervisors of the bank, he was not charged under the computer related provisions but under article 407 (1) (a) and (b) of the Criminal Code which criminalizes abuse of power by public servants.

Website
https://www.abyssinialaw.com/blog-posts/item/1545-the-state-of-cybercrime-governance-in-ethiopia