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H.E. Mr. Alpha Oumar Konaré, the former President of Mali, underlined his support for using information technologies for development in Africa in his address "Afrique et les nouvelles technologies de l'information" (Africa and the New Information Technologies) presented at a conference in Geneva in October 1996. The conference, which was co-chaired by the President and Guy-Olivier Segond, Conseiller d'Etat de Genève, adopted a final declaration enabling the establishment of a network known as ANAIS to facilitate the use of ICT in Africa. The ANAIS group had its first seminar in Bamako on 15-19 December 1997 to discuss the means, tools and modalities for setting up an efficient information network. The seminar was organized by the ANAIS' node of Bamako with the support of la Fondation du Devenir (Geneva) and l'Association GlobeNet (Paris). At the national level, substantial development has taken place in the improvement of the telecommunications infrastructure in Mali. However, ICT issues such as NICI policies, strategies, and plans were not addressed. Attempts to address the issue of an ICT policy date back to the national NICI workshop held in Bamako in October 1999 - SEMINAIRE NATIONAL SUR LA MISE EN PLACE D'UNE STRATEGIE SUR LES NOUVELLES TECHNOLOGIES DE L'INFORMATION ET DE LA COMMUNICATION. Mali's NICI development process was launched with the ECA in May 2002 during the first African Regional Conference for the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The process was resumed in August 2003, carried out in cooperation with UNDP and finalized in December 2004. The ICT Policy was adopted by the Council of Ministers and a decree was passed to create the “Agence des Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication (AGETIC)”, which has the mandate to implement the NICI plan. The NICI Policy and Plan documents were approved by the Cabinet in June 2005.
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