Emma Okonji Information and Communications Technology (ICT) stakeholders in West Africa have agreed to embrace the universality of the internet with the aim of deepening internet penetration across the region and ensuring safe internet. The agreement was reached recently during the joint organised forum of The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, (UNESCO) and the African ICT Foundation, on how to mainstream Internet Universality and the Rights, Openness, Access and Multi-stakeholder (ROAM) approach principles. The session, which was held on the occasion of the West African Internet Governance Forum 2021, focused on how to encourage more countries to use ROAM-X indicators for improving national Internet development and digital policies in West Africa.