INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF E-GOVERNANCE IN CAMEROON HIGHER EDUCATION SYSTEM

Abstract

This article analyses the emerging institutionalization of e-governance in Cameroon’s Higher Education System. It eventually pays attention to the game of actors by questioning their role and influence in this process. The government of Cameroon is engaged since several years in the promotion of ICT in the organization and governance of Higher Education through various initiatives and mechanisms; but there are also other actors, at the international and regional level as well as private sector, who actively take part to this transformation. In order to understand the different actors’ actions and interactions in the routinization and crystallization of E-governance in Cameroon’s Higher Education, this article utilizes conceptual perspectives from neo- institutional theory especially drawing from rational choice institutionalism.