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Outreach on Information Society Development
The Outreach
and Communication Programme entails a series of activities
aimed at supporting the African Information Society Initiative
goals, and it involves all societal actors in addressing the
continent’s quest for an information society.
Specific
objectives include:
- Creating greater awareness on the information society
within the AISI framework;
- Stimulating national debate through the production of
targeted outputs and joint collaboration with the media
in various countries;
- Sensitising decision and policy-makers on ICT issues and
trends and implications for the development process;
- Encouraging various stakeholders and partners in the development
process to develop the information society across Africa;
- Developing strategies for greater access to the information
society by various groups including, women, youth, the poor
and disadvantaged;
- Encouraging the development of appropriate ICT socio-economic
frameworks that nurture innovative and creative applications
to suit the African context.
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Information
Outputs on the work of the AISI, including:
- Briefing Papers that
provide insights and useful information to decision-makers
and the international community;
- Radio documentaries
and programmes on ICTs and its relevance to the development
process that would be broadcast by radio stations
across the continent in English and French;
- Video documentaries
on the policy and NICI processes to encourage other countries
to follow suit, as well as serve as a resource for other
purposes, such broadcasting by TV stations in Africa;
The publication of diverse reports on ICT trends
and developments as a result of research findings;
- The creation of specific on-line
resources to effect interactive communication between
various stakeholders on the continent.
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AISI
Media Awards programme
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Sensitisation
programmes that will create greater awareness among key stakeholders
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Sensitisation
programmes that will create greater awareness among key stakeholders
on:
- Civil
Society and ICT Policy-making Workshop - Workshops that
provide various groups with relevant information on ICTs
for development to be organised through the Information
Technology Centre for Africa.
- Effective
Use of ICT to Create a New Environment for Learning and
Teaching, 29 July to 1 August 2002,
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The workshop was organised under
the aegis of the four Foundation partnership (Ford/Carnegie/MacArthur/Rockefeller)
in collaboration with ECA. The theme for the conference
is “Effective Use of ICT to create a New Environment
for Learning and Teaching”, bringing together 25 people
from African universities and centers that are implementing
ICT in a meaningful way. For further details contact Lisbeth
Levey, Partnership Facilitator lal9@nyu.edu
[Workshop
Agenda (MS/Word Format)]
- The
African
Diaspora electronic discussion list that aims at engaging
the African Diaspora in an online discussion forum in the
area of ICTs for social and economic development in Africa.
- The
creation of an ICT Information Clearing House
that can provide member states with the relevant information
on ICTs and the African Information Society.
- African
Academia and the Information Society, 15-16 June 2003, Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia. ECA is collaborating with The Ford
Foundation to provide a platform and space for a select
group of leading African academics to reflect on the many
intellectual issues that they face as they develop strategies
for enhancing their role in the information society. For
more information, contact: Aida Opoku-Mensah, ECA at: aopoku-mensah@uneca.org,
or Tade Aina at T.Aina@fordfound.org
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