Dr. Kodjo Ndukuma Adjayi is the author of two new books on digital issues and rights that has just been published by Harmattan. This being the fruit of ten years of his research. The first 451-page book is titled: « The Law of the Digital Economy. E-commerce and European deregulation, … Congolese Telecommunications. »

If the telecoms, the Internet and the digitization have given to the digital revolution, the author of this work finds that the phenomenology of societal order which results from it is a real source for the Right. This is explained today by the fact that the state faces polycentres of normative power and the planetary giants of the Net.

« Net independence postulates regulation only by computer code and by the market. Twisted, paradigms of law offer two possible approaches to legislation: via the content of networked activities or via their container », he explains.

Therefore, the network is, indeed, the electronic way for distance trading. Because, it monetizes the value of the click as well as the intelligences incessantly inventive. Hence, his insistent recommendation to understand the stakes in the field of a Digital Economy Law.

« Telecoms and Digital Rights: African and Congolese Profile, Comparative Foresight of Europe and France » is the title of the second 428-page book written by Kodjo Ndukuma.

This specialist in African cyberspace law is based on the premise that telecoms, the Internet and digital are technical factors for the transformation of the law.

Originally, he explains, telecoms was under the public service regime. From the United States and Europe, between 1994 and 1997 the WTO promoted the sectoral regulation law. Everywhere, new challenges are born, in the dismantling of monopolies towards a total market economy.

« For the Democratic Republic of Congo, its deregulatory laws, frozen since October 16, 2002, contrast with the digital, economic and societal mutations of postmodern states to the Internet test, » says Kodjo Ndukuma.

He pointed out that the Europe of telecoms is constantly adjusting its legislative policy around structuring objectives such as: market construction, technological diffusion, data protection, etc.

To him to emphasize in this volume 2: « if Africa adapts barely and with difficulty, the Democratic Republic of the Congo intends to frame telecoms and ICT, renewal of state regulation, exchanges and electronic commerce, through three texts of law in the making. « 

In leading this new collection, Kodjo Ndukuma says he is motivated to open a door from within for young researchers.

« The digital will no longer be a mystery or a mystical appanage of selfish scholars who have reached the peaks without wanting to share their place in the stars, » he told Zoom Eco

To do this, he supervises in a research laboratory graduate students of the second cycle of law or related sciences by bringing them recent bibliography elements on the polymorphic aspects Numeric, so that they raise the levels of their work to the standard equivalent abroad and that these are published once their briefs have been made.

This will reveal the Congolese and African nuggets by opening the doors of the universal, by the passage of the memory to the work and the reaching of other horizons.

To find out, Kodjo Ndukuma has not been invested in the new digital platform Congolese alumni of French universities and schools, launched by the French Minister of Europe and Foreign Affairs Jean Yves Le Drian, on May 20, 2019, in Kinshasa, during which he (our Congolese author) took the word and the banner.

Eric TSHIKUMA