Professionalization of “E-sport” in Senegal.

Faced with the global health situation characterized by the Covid-19 pandemic, Senegal is not spared, the biggest meetings having been canceled or postponed and the lack of sponsors made little visible throughout the year 2021. Faced with this, the video game sector is experiencing an explosion in its audience and its activity thanks to E-sport, a competitive practice of video games which represents more than 600 million gamers, or 732 billion FCFA (1.8% of the total). global market). More than 75% of applications are downloaded on the stores in the world and placed 10th art, and 1 Creative industry in the world with a market which generated $180.3 billion in 2021, according to market analysis. New zoo. revision on annual revenues, which should reach $200 billion in 2023. This constitutes three times more than music and cinema combined!

Thus, the State of Senegal, through its Ministry of Sports, in coordination with its Ministry of Digital Economy and Telecommunications, wishes to provide an adequate and sovereign response, which aims to encourage and promote this discipline but above all with the creation of the "National Committee for the Promotion of E-Sport".

The creation of this committee will enable the State to find opportunities for young people in the context of employment. It will also be an opportunity to enhance and promote quality internet infrastructure and connectivity and the digital creative economy, which will inevitably contribute to phase 2 entitled "an inclusive digital society", including the Digital Senegal vision (SN 2025 ) of the famous Emerging Senegal Program, until 2035.

The National Committee for the Promotion of E-Sport with its President, Mr. El Hadj Mansour Jacques Sagna Alias Lord Alajiman and his management team, experts in this field, will have the mission of organizing throughout the national territory the "Practice E- sport" through competitions.

It will be for the committee to program and carry out training and cooperation actions for development, to coordinate and develop the practice of E-Sport throughout the territory, to initiate any action of promotion and practice of E-Sport in Senegal and to organize regular competitions in all regions, E-Sport on the national and international level, to represent Senegal at the level of continental and intercontinental bodies and to ensure the protection of practitioners (E-Sports ).

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