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 ECA
and Finland partner to strengthen ICT policy implementation
in Africa
ECA Press Release No. 41/2008
Addis
Ababa 4 December (ECA) – The UN Under-Secretary-General
and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic Commission
for Africa (ECA), Mr. Abdoulie Janneh and H. E. Ms. Kirsti
Aarnio, the Ambassador of Finland to Ethiopia, representing
the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Finland signed today a
memorandum of understanding (MOU) for three million, seven
hundred fifty thousand Euros (€ 3, 750 000) to support
cooperation between the ICT, Science and Technology Division
of ECA and Finland on ICT development in Africa during the
period 2008-2010.
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Impact
of Global Information Society Agenda on ICT Policy in Africa
This
PhD thesis by Sarah Chiumbu seeks to find the extent to which
the global information society agenda has shaped and influenced
the African Information Society Initiative (AISI).
The
AISI, the first African regional information society framework,
was adopted in May 1996 by Conference of African Ministers
of Economic and Social Development and African Heads of State
and Governments. Using international political economy and
policy analysis theories, this thesis seeks to critically
examine the policy-making process that led to the adoption
of the AISI. In addition it seeks to study the ideas, interests
and priorities that have advanced the African ICT policy reform
agenda.
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PICTA
Bulletin, Number 70, July - September 2008!
 The
2009 Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) Awards announced
.....GKP Executive Committee and Membership Committee/Regional
Coordinators meet jointly in Paris .......Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation: Access to Learning Award (ATLA) 2009 .......Stakeholders
adopt The Gambia NICI Plan ........Sixth African Development
Forum to Focus on Gender Issues ........East African States
discuss ICT policy harmonization .......Africa Still Hampered
by Lack of Geographical Data ......Internet penetration has
become a key factor in financial well-being .....Rwanda: Broadband
rollout to improve healthcare .......Botswana backs Eassy
project with $100m investment ....... Africa investor launches
SRI Index with NEPAD and the UN .......Kagame talks innovation
& technology for Africa .......Ericsson to launch mobile
Innovation Centre in Africa .....Zambia puts IT to use in
October presidential election .....Uganda government will
launch Web portal ....Mobile health to expand to 22 sub-Saharan
countries ....Mobile banking revolutionising the livelihood
of the poor and rural people in Kenya.
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PICTA
Bulletin, Number 69, April - June 2008!
Second
African ICT Best Practices Forum .....New task group on measuring
ICT impact.......GKP engages 5 UN Regional Commissions at
Addis Ababa meeting.......IICD enters new Global Teenager
Project partnership......The Africa E-Governance Academy Validation
Meeting......ECA Moves from Ideas to Action to Promote Scientific
Research and Development in Africa........Third Meeting of
the Fifth African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC V)......eLearning
Africa 2008.....Empowering Zambia Parliamentarians for their
new Role in the Information Society........ African education
ministers call for more collaboration in the continent on
ICTs in education........
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NEW
PUBLICATION !
 THE
AFRICAN INFORMATION SOCIETY INITIATIVE (AISI): A DECADE’S
PERSPECTIVE
This
publication serves to assess the 10 years of the existence
of AISI, which was adopted by ECA as its work programme, and
highlights the opportunities and challenges of the implementation
of this framework within the context of African development.
Apart from assisting member States to formulate national strategies,
other aspects of the implementation of the AISI include information
and knowledge development, an outreach and communication programme,
and networking and partnerships.
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ECA
Moves from Ideas to Action to Promote Scientific Research
and Development in Africa
09 June 2008
 The
Information, Science and Technology Division (ISTD) of the
Economic Commission for Africa organized a workshop last week
in Addis Ababa in collaboration with the African Union Commission
and Brainstore to devise strategies and set a timeframe for
the implementation of innovative ideas, which the Science
with Africa Conference generated last March. Government officials,
ECA and AU experts as well as the African Diaspora representatives
who attended this roadmap workshop identified potential lead
institutions and possible partners for each core idea. They
also discussed funding constraints and reviewed fiscal systems
in place to ensure a thorough assessment of the costs involved.
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New
Publication: Global Information Society: a Statistical View
launched
04 June 2008
 A
new report on "Global Information Society: a Statistical
View" was launched at the 2008 Global Event on Measuring
the Information Society, held from 27 - 29 May 2008 at the
Palais des Nations under the direction of the Partnership
on Measuring ICT for Development, whose members include UNECA.
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African
education ministers call for more collaboration in the continent
on ICTs in education
29 May 2008, Accra , Ghana
 UNECA
and the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI)
co-organised a Ministerial meeting on ICTs in education on
Wednesday, 28 May 2008 at the Conference Center in Accra ,
Ghana . The meeting took place as a pre-conference event prior
to eLearning Africa 2008 Conference, taking place from 29
– 30 May 2008 on the theme ICTs for development, education
and training.
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Empowering
Zambia Parliamentarians for their new Role in the Information
Society
05 May 2008
 In
collaboration with the Parliament of Zambia, the ICT, Science
and technology Division (ISTD) and ECA Sub-regional Office
of Southern Africa, facilitated a 2-day MPs workshop on "The
role of Parliament in promoting an inclusive Information Society
in the Zambia" from 19-20 April 2008. More than twenty
Members of Parliaments and Staff participated in the vent.
The workshop was organized in the context of ECA's e-Policy
Resource Network for Africa, which was set up with support
from the Government of Canada to provide expertise, guidance
and advice to African countries implementing national e-strategies.
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Gender
and e-Government worshop opens at ECA
21
March 2008
 A
one-day workshop on Gender and E-government was opened today,
21 March 2008 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Over forty participants
are in attendance at the workshop drawn from Ministries of
Information and Communication Technologies, National Gender
Machineries and representatives of Regional Economic Communities.
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PICTA
Bulletin, Number 68, January - March 2008!
"Science
With Africa" Conference: Science and technological innovation
critical for Africa's economic growth ......20 Ideas selected
during "Science With Africa" Idea Factory .......GKP
AFRICA 2008: Powering Africa with ICT & Entrepreneurship
.....NOVATECH 2008. NOVATECH 2008 .....ICT for Health Network
launched in Tanzania .....Introducing mobile phones to a farming
project in Ghana ....Nokia launches recycling initiative in
East Africa ....Nigeria's ICT Infrastructure Plan validated
by Stakeholders .....Gambia Scan-ICT report released .....Fifth
Annual General Meeting of the Association of Regulators of
Information and Communication for Eastern and Southern Africa
(ARICEA) .....Gender and e-Government workshop ......
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NEW
PUBLICATION !
 e-Strategies:
National Information and Communication Infrastructure (NICI):
Best Practices and Lessons Learnt, Economic Commission for
Africa (ECA), 2007
The
publication captures the lessons learnt as a result of a decade
of national and sub regional ICT policy-making. The ECA decision
for support to national e-policies development came as a result
of Africa Information Society Initiative (AISI) implementation,
which called for countries to develop guiding policy and infrastructural
frameworks to optimize the use of ICTs in carrying out their
socio-economic development agenda. From the global context,
the WSIS process and Action Plans from Geneva and Tunis later
reinforced this thinking.
The
publication also assesses how NICI policies are formulated
using case studies from Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi and Nigeria,
which indicate the critical importance of the nation’s
development priorities and goals for the sustainability of
any e-strategy. In line with AISI, the assistance being accorded
to Regional Economic Communities (RECs) to implement their
Information Society programmes and initiatives is extensively
discussed, citing the various activities being undertaken
by the RECs in using ICTs for regional integration objectives.
The status of NICI policies and plans in member States is
analyzed in terms of the progress made and challenges encountered
is presented, capping this, with the process critical success
factors.
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Nigeria's
ICT Infrastructure Plan validated by Stakeholders
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January 2008 (ECA) - Following a workshop held in Lagos on
17 January 2008, over 100 experts from various stakeholder
groups, comprised of Government ministries, private sector,
non-government organisations (NGOs), community-based organisations
(CBOs), academia, women and youth groups endorsed Nigeria's
Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD)
Plan.
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Gambia
Scan-ICT report
 The
Scan-ICT project for the Gambia marks another milestone in
the development of the ICT sector, measuring access, usage
and exploitation of ICTs in the Country. This
study was coordinated by the Department of State
for Finance and Economic Affairs, the Department of State
for Communications and Information and Technology and the
Gambia Bureau of Statistics. Henceforth the exercise will
be integrated in the regular data collection mechanism of
the Statistical Bureau.
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