Blockchain Association of Cameroon
Building Cameroon's digital infrastructure of trust
Bringing together government, industry, research and civil society to accelerate responsible adoption of blockchain and artificial intelligence.
- National association founded in 2018
- Six strategic axes for 2026–2029
- Training and certification
- Cooperation with public institutions
Why BAC exists
Technology alone is not enough. Trust has to come with it.
Blockchain and AI will only create lasting value in Cameroon if frameworks, skills and coordination follow. That is precisely BAC's ground.
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A regulatory framework still being built
Innovators operate without stable legal visibility, while regulators lack independent technical counterparts to inform their decisions.
02
Fragmented initiatives
Projects, associations and programmes develop in parallel with few points of convergence, diluting national effort and confusing external partners.
03
A certified skills gap
Demand for blockchain, data and AI profiles far exceeds recognised training supply, holding back both companies and public administration.
04
Persistent technological dependency
Without locally mastered infrastructure, data and expertise, structural choices are made elsewhere.
05
Too little dialogue between research, state and industry
Academic work struggles to translate into public policy and products for want of durable spaces of consultation.
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Under-equipped innovators
Startups and project leaders lack structured access to financing, public procurement and international networks.
Strategy 2026–2029
Six axes for tangible digital sovereignty
Validated by the Honorary Council on 3 March 2026, the strategy connects each technical action to a measurable effect on the economy and public administration.
Select an axis to see the detail
Regulatory sandbox and banking evolution
Giving regulators an independent technical counterpart and a supervised experimentation framework.
Objectives
- Establish BAC as a technical counterpart to COBAC and BEAC
- Document use cases testable in a supervised environment
- Contribute to standard-setting work on digital assets
Involved
The ecosystem
A network, not a directory
BAC connects families of actors that, on their own, cannot deliver a national infrastructure of trust.
8 categories shown
Institutions
Ministries and administrations
Framework, public procurement, sovereign use cases
Institutions
Regulators and supervisors
Legal certainty, supervision, sandbox
Economy
Banks and financial institutions
Payments, compliance, financial inclusion
Economy
Companies and SMEs
Adoption, traceability, productivity gains
Innovation
Startups and innovators
Prototyping, new services, exports
Research
Universities and research centres
Applied research, training, expertise
Research
Students and young professionals
Certified skills, technical pipeline
International
International partners
Funding, standards, technical cooperation
Key figures
What is established, and verifiable
BAC only publishes indicators backed by official documents. Community and training data will be added once consolidated.
- 2018
- Year of founding, declaration N°305/2018/RDA/C19/SAAJP
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- Strategic axes validated for 2026–2029
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- Membership tiers, from student to institution
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- Leadership and Honorary Council members
Community, certification and event indicators: being consolidated by the General Secretariat prior to publication.
Programmes
Where strategy becomes operational
Each programme combines a framework, a skill and a use case. The point is not to demonstrate a technology, but to solve a national problem.
Regulatory dialogue
Contributing to standard-setting work on digital assets, traceability and public-sector AI as an independent technical counterpart.
Professional certification
Recognised pathways for public and private sector professionals, historically delivered in partnership with MINPOSTEL.
Sovereign, ethical AI
Certifying the integrity of training datasets and making systems deployed by public administration auditable.
Agricultural traceability
Distributed ledgers and automated payments benefiting producers, in coordination with the relevant ministries.
Regional R&D hub
Building blockchain, distributed-ledger and AI research capacity at Central African scale.
Public procurement and markets
Introducing verifiable transparency criteria into public procurement and opening markets to local actors.
Membership
Four ways to take part
From student to institutional partner, each tier opens a different level of engagement, visibility and access.
Individual Supporter
5,000 FCFA
per year
Students, youth, sympathizers and individuals on a limited budget
Become a memberProfessional
25,000 FCFA
per year
Professionals, consultants, freelancers, researchers and project holders
Become a memberLeadership
1,000,000 FCFA
per year
Large companies, multinationals, institutions and parastatal organizations
Become a memberGovernance
A readable structure, identified responsibilities
General Assembly, Board of Directors, Executive Bureau and Honorary Council: each body holds a distinct mandate, defined by the statutes adopted in 2018.
General Assembly
Comprises all members; meets at least once a year to approve accounts and budget, elect Executive Bureau members, and deliberate on the agenda. Votes on persons are by secret ballot.
Board of Directors (Conseil d'Administration)
Holds the broadest powers to authorize acts, set the annual budget, and authorize legal action. Only an Extraordinary Board session can amend the Statutes, dissolve the association, or approve a merger.
Executive Bureau (Conseil de Gestion)
The Board plus other Assembly-elected members, serving a renewable three-year term. Statutory seats include President, Vice-President, Secretary-General, Treasurer, and Directors for the Government, Education and Corporate commissions.
Events
Gatherings that move the national framework forward
Conferences, national consultations and workshops bringing administration, industry and academia around concrete decisions.
Africa Layer-0 Summit — Future of Law, Currency, Finance and Inclusive Economy
Palais des Congrès, Yaoundé
A continental flagship summit targeting 50 countries and 5,000 participants, closing BAC's 2026-2027 strategic calendar.
Cameroon Blockchain Conference
Palais des Congrès, Yaoundé
Central Africa's first high-level blockchain conference, and the catalytic event for BAC's founding.
Knowledge Centre
Producing doctrine, not just commentary
Policy papers, public positions and regulatory analysis published by BAC and its contributors.
Proposals for New Customs Measures Related to Blockchain Technology
May 2021 · Cedric Moudze Tatsum, BAC Operations Manager
Recommendations for DLT-based trade digitization and customs data-sharing, prepared as input to Cameroon's 2022 Finance Law process, citing the Hong Kong–Singapore DLT Trade Finance Project and Maersk/IBM TradeLens as benchmarks.
Public Statement on COBAC/CEMAC Cryptocurrency Restrictions
May 2022 · Roger Justin Noah, BAC Vice-President for Cryptocurrency
A public response examining the coherence of COBAC's crypto restrictions in light of the Central African Republic's 2022 bitcoin legal-tender law, with regulatory comparisons across Germany, Nigeria, France and the United States.
Partners
Working relationships, not a logo wall
Every partnership listed here corresponds to a collaboration documented in the association's records.
MINPOSTEL
Government
GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit)
Development agency
Ahrvo Labs Inc.
Technology partner
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