On May 6 and 7, 2025, a training workshop on digital development policies in Côte d’Ivoire was held for managers of producers’ organizations. This workshop enabled them to acquire knowledge of the legal environment and public policies for digital development in Côte d’Ivoire.
A song in honor of the laws governing digital development in Côte d’Ivoire, sung with fervor, resounding applause for the organizers, smiles and joyous laughter on everyone’s faces – these were the signs of great satisfaction at the end of the training workshop for leaders of farmers’ organizations on policies linked to digital development in Côte d’Ivoire.
For two days, from May 6 to 7, 2025, some fifteen leaders of agricultural producers’ organizations, members of the Plateforme d’action nationale pour l’Agriculture en Côte d’Ivoire (National Action Platform for Agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire), met at the Imans Hotel in the town of Daloa to learn about Ivorian policies and legislation on digital issues.
This workshop was organized as part of the DigitOP project – digital leverage to accelerate the development of PO services in West Africa, implemented by INADES-Formation, AFDI, AVI and financed by AFD. Its aim is to equip and build the capacities of producer organizations to make them key players in the digital transformation of agriculture in Côte d’Ivoire.
Digital technology, it has to be said, has taken root and is booming in agriculture. According to the FAO1, digital technologies are boosting efficiency and productivity, and tackling bottlenecks in food security, post-harvest handling, market access, financing and supply chain management. Digital technology is making agriculture more efficient and more attractive to young people.
The DigitOP project aims to ensure that farmers’ organizations in West Africa are not left on the sidelines of this digital revolution in agriculture. It is important for the leaders of farmers’ organizations to understand and appropriate the digital environment and the potential that exists.
According to Ms Seye Fernande, coordinator of the DigitOP project and the workshop’s main trainer, “if we want to send people into the digital world, we need to be able to tell them, be careful, here are the players who make up the digital world and here are the laws that govern this sector”.
Participants from 14 regions of Côte d’Ivoire were briefed, among other things, on the digital ecosystem in Côte d’Ivoire, legislation favorable to digital deployment in CI, and the protection of personal data. Concrete examples of digital services were presented, including the SimAgri platform created by INADES-Formation Côte d’Ivoire and the FonsdevCI application, a financial platform for producers.
They leave determined to embrace digital technology in their activities, to make their voice heard for digital infrastructures and services adapted to the world of agriculture.
Communication INADES-Formation General Secretariat
