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Updates
Newsletter 000 - Nurturing Research and Development in the
Information Society
The
time to act is now
 The
development of every people (nation and continent) begins
in an idea, indeed, a vision. This vision, which starts as
the affair of one person soon moves on to a few people and
then the community, the nation and the continent. Since the
emergence of the globalization phenomenon, a lot has been
said and done to engage the planet in what has become known
as the global market. more...
ICT
Industrialization in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Tanzania
- Development of Open Source Software applications,
especially to address rural and local challenges, with emphasis
on capacity building in ICT was a potential area to be explored
by African countries;
- Development of ICT industrialization models, where researchers
and academics would collaborate with the governments to implement
some flagship projects;
- Encourage Governments to provide incentives such as start
funds for an industrial environment and market.
Promotion of Local Languages in Cameroon
- Mapping existing public and private initiatives to enable
African language use on computer appliances;
- Analysis on political, economic, socio-linguistic and structural
challenges and obstacles to promote African languages on the
Internet.;
- Follow-up strategies for networking among researchers to
scale up their capacity and enhance awareness among stakeholders
and policy makers;
- Creation of a continental team of academics and researchers
in computational linguistics.
OSS Localization: Health & Commerce Information
System for Ethiopia
- Study how mobile communication can be used to enable health
practitioners to obtain health information anywhere, anytime
and using any devices
- Develop an input method for hand-held devices for Ethiopic,
the script used for Amharic, the working language of the Federal
Government of Ethiopia and the lingua-franca of that country
- Develop in partnership with selected private sector and
Diaspora companies, an E-payment system that can be used in
Ethiopia.
Information Society Indicators for Tunisia
- Assist Tunisian national statistics offices, ICT Policy
and strategies National Committee to incorporate measurement
of indicators and benchmark the Information Society in the
Policy and implementation framework;
- Undertake in-depth analysis on ICT impacts on society by
using the data and information collected by various indicator
initiatives and in Tunisia;
- Refine the indicators of penetration/usage and define socio-economic
impact indicators, measurement tools and methodologies of
data collection and analysis;- Cooperate with the authorities
of statistics within the framework of the second Phase of
Scan-ICT in Tunisia;
- Contribute to other SCAN-ICT Phase II processes.
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