The creation of the African Organization of the Competitive Intelligence – AOCI is the result of a research started in 2000 by Joseph BAYEHE,Consulting – Graduate school lecturer, after the United Nations summit declining the Millennium Development Goals- MDG, and thus the objective was to support the African actors in their efforts of integration and development, poverty reduction and in the long term to make of Africa an important actor of globalization.

 A study and analyzes carried out by him make appears the dark situation of continent but he did not give any contents or form to the project that he was imagine, until the release by the Commission of the African Union of the documents entitled "Vision of the African Union and missions of the Commission of the African Union" and "strategic tallies of the commission of the African Union".

Wanting to answer to the call of the African leaders 1 and the will of the Commission of the African Union 2 and Heads of States  "asking to the people to prepare to take up the challenge of the mobilization of the support to the setting of the initiative while setting up, on all the levels, of mechanisms allowing them to organize themselves, to mobilize themselves and act ", 

In order to help the Commission  to reach the goal "to create the conditions which make it possible to reach within the shortest times, the entirety of the objectives of the Deed of partnership of the African Union,  by initiating debates and policies, by informing the African populations and the rest of the world, by ensuring a mission of advocacy,  by simulating thinking, by seeking a total coherence of the bodies of the African Union, by reinforcing and building its own capacities and by establishing mechanisms of follow-up-evaluation ",

In optics to share the vision of the African Union, that of "linked Africa, integrated, devoted to justice, peace, interdependent and strong, determined to obtain an ambitious and supported strategy integration political, economic, social and cultural which gives again with the panafricanism all its direction, able to benefit from its humans and material resources, anxious to ensure the blooming of its populations while drawing left opportunities which a globalize world able offers to promote its values in a world, rich of its differences",

In 2004, its initiator, who will see other African intellectuals such Simon Pierre NGUIMBOCK – Consulting - University Teacher with a solid company experience and background, reconsidering the economic situation of the continent, non competitive companies, suffocating economies, stagnant growth, poverty, put on paper the project of an organization which would be called Organization for Competitiveness and Economic Security in Africa OCSEA (French).

 Revisiting the geopolitical and geo-economics international situation marked by the effects of the globalization; analyzing the practices which allow our partners and competitors to secure risks related to globalization and to remain competitive while ensuring the world leadership; seeing the role played in their cases by the information control in the new economy, noting the place which occupy the concept of competitive intelligence in these countries and the delay taken by Africa in the implementation of this concept with competitiveness, sovereignty and economic security challenges, will found in Dakar - Senegal the African Organization of Competitive Intelligence  – AOCI-.

 The project will know another dimension with the arrival and the contribution of several other intellectuals and African high responsible such like H.E General Mamadou Mansour SECK, Former Senegal Armies Chief of staff, former Ambassador of Senegal in Washington, Babacar NDIAYE, former president and honorary president of the African Development Bank, Jacques BONJAWO, IT Manager at Microsoft head quarter and former president of the board of directors of the African Virtual University and many others.

After its legal recognition in Senegal, an information campaign will be carried out near several African Heads of State, near the African intergovernmental Organizations, of some African and Western chancelleries based in Dakar and near the partners for the development.

  Meetings are made and symposium organized in order to make known this initiative which has as objective to promote the competitive intelligence, but also to impel and accompany the social, political, institutional and economic changes which will allow and give to Africa, a competitive position in globalization and contribute to reduce the variation which separates Africa from the rich countries, by allowing  progress  and continuous  development for the achievement of national objectives of economic performances and good governance in the African countries, and  facilitating durable progress, on the long term, towards the establishment of effective good governance, a constant growth and an efficient anticipation  through the information control and strategic thinking. 

1- NEPAD: Appel aux peuples Africains in "Document cadre du nouveau partenariat de l'Afrique pour le développement", Octobre 2001
2- Union Africaine: Mission de la Commission de l’Union Africaine, in "Vision de l’Union Africaine et mission de la Commission de l’Union Africaine, Projet final" Février 2004