SUMMARY Wishing to meet its development challenges, Senegal has adopted the Emerging Senegal Plan (Plan Senegal Emergent (PSE)), a national strategy which breaks with the approaches of recent decades and puts Senegal on a new route to economic and social development. This new spirit of Senegal, as set out in a vision of "An emerging Senegal in 2035", aims to change how our economy is structured. Directly in line with this vision and amongst other major efforts, Senegal aims to use new technology and information and communications technology (ICT) in particular as the key drivers of this change. It is in this context that Senegal has adopted "Senegal numérique 2025" (SN2025) ['Digital Senegal 2025"], our national strategy to convert Senegal to a digital society. With this in mind, SN2025 is based on three pillars: • • • The legal and institutional framework Human resources Digital confidence As far as the third of these three pillars of SN2025 ('digital confidence') is concerned, it appears that, for all the players involved, protecting infrastructure, information systems and users, and hence protecting cyberspace as a whole is one of the essential pillars of the ambitions which Senegal sets itself in digital terms. To guarantee this digital confidence, the Government of Senegal needs to ensure it has the frameworks, tools, knowhow, resources and capacities required not just to eliminate the vulnerabilities in Senegal's existing information systems, but also ensure we are monitoring for cyberthreats, to prevent cybercrime and prosecute it. The President's order ( https://www.sec.gouv.sn/-PSSI-ES-.html) on the security policy for the State information systems in Senegal (PSSI-ES) was issued to define the principles and rules to be used an optimum level of security for the government's information systems in accordance with current laws and regulations in force. This "National Cybersecurity strategy 2022" (SNC2022) sets out Senegal's strategic vision and aims in terms of cybersecurity, reflected in a constant support for the aims and priorities of SN2025. The key elements of SNC2022 are as follows: • To evaluate the strategic cybersecurity context in Senegal, including present and future threats; • The Government's vision of cybersecurity and the strategic aims to be achieved; • The general principles, roles and responsibilities which can support this strategy; • The logical framework for implementing it. 4