Togo

Digital snapshot – key policies and laws

Togo’s digital profile is defined by a dual movement: a rapidly developing digital state and recurring questions about online rights. The country’s anchor policy remains Togo Digital 2025, which aims to expand access, digitise public services, and build a digital economy through a more integrated state architecture.

In public administration, Togo has moved beyond simple government websites toward transactional e-government. The Agence Togo Digital describes its role as setting standards and tools for a more coherent digital administration, while the government says the national public-services portal processed more than 400,000 requests in 2024 after adding 60 new procedures. Even so, the UN’s 2024 E-Government Development Index still places Togo at 161st of 193, suggesting that visible service gains coexist with broader capacity gaps.

Infrastructure is one of Togo’s stronger assets in its digital story. The country has pushed a state-backed, open-access model for fibre and backbone infrastructure, and Google’s Equiano cable has been operational in Togo since August 2023, adding to its international connectivity through Lomé. That is reinforced by the Lomé Data Centre, which gives Togo a local hosting asset, and by a World Bank $100 million package approved in December 2024 to expand broadband and connect about 8,000 public institutions.

In regulation, Togo has assembled a fairly complete formal framework. It now has a National Cybersecurity Strategy 2024–2028, a 2019 personal data protection law, and a dedicated regulator, the IPDCP, which presents itself as the authority for the ethical and lawful use of personal data. Cybersecurity is one area where Togo has posted unusually strong recent indicators: official and ITU-linked reporting in 2024 said the country entered the African top 10 in the Global Cybersecurity Index.

Togo’s emerging-tech profile is most visible in AI for public policy, mobile money, and the wider digital economy. The government is still developing a national AI strategy, but it has already used data-intensive tools in practice: the Novissi cash-transfer programme used machine learning and mobile phone data to help target emergency support.

Togo’s permanent mission to the UN in Geneva:

Togo’s Permanent Mission in Geneva represents the country at the UN Office at Geneva and other international organisations, including the WTO and related multilateral bodies. UN Geneva’s Blue Book lists it at Rue de Lausanne 67–69, 1202 Geneva, with the mission website recorded as ambassadedutogo.ch. The mission’s website presents it as both a diplomatic representation and a consular service for Togolese nationals in Switzerland, while also sharing updates on multilateral diplomacy, diaspora engagement, and international cooperation.

Official UNOG website: https://www.ungeneva.org/en/blue-book/missions/member-states/togo

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Main digital policies and regulations in the country:

• Stratégie Togo Digital 2025
• TOGO STRATEGIE NATIONALE DE CYBERSECURITE PUBLIC 1

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