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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PICTA Bulletin, Number 67,  November-December 2007!

The third Global Knowledge Conference (GK3) .....The 2007 AISI-GKP Media Award winners honoured at GK3 .....Stockholm Challenge - GKP Awards 2007 Winners honoured at GK3 .....UN partners with European Commission to boost ICT investment ....ECA's Aida Opoku-Mensah Speaks on the State of ICT Development in Africa ....ICT 4 All Forum in Tunis ....Dutch IT company Altran supports ICT projects in Tanzania and Zambia ....APC makes recommendations to UN Internet governance forum .....ECA Panels/ Workshops during GK3 .....Knowledge summit comes to Africa .....Regional Stakeholders Workshop on Knowledge Networks for disadvantaged communities .....ECOWAS adopts Guidelines on combating cyber crime ....ECA Head Abdoulie Janneh brokers partnerships with Europe for a science driven development in Africa ....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 66,  October 2007!

Connect Africa Summit adopts five goals to bridge the digital divide in Africa ....Connect Africa Summit: Capacity Building, Applications and Services .....UNESCO and Library of Congress sign agreement for World Digital Library ....New Chairman of ICANN Elected Unanimously ....Participants call for a scaling up of policy implementation activities .....Development of a Rural Electronic Schools Model in African Languages (ERELA), in primary school in Cameroon .....Civil society calls for new governance to make Internet accessible to Africans ....East Africa: Reform taxation laws on Telecommunications .....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 65,  August-September 2007!

Connect Africa .....GKP Announces the GK3 Programme ...AU Conference on Women and Science and Technology ....New partners join Web4Dev organisers ....Nokia launches Amharic interface phones ...Member States Adopt a Development Agenda for WIPO ....WITFOR 2007 .....Capacity building at ITCA on web technologies ....First Meeting of the African Intergovernmental Committee on Science, Technology and Innovation Indicators ....Ghana holds first ICT Awards .....South Africa: Free at last! ....DRC: Alternatives reveals the first independent study on an Internet infrastructure that can serve the entire country .....Zambia: India Funds ICT Training in Zambia ....Africa: Mobile Communications for Rural Homes .....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 64,  July 2007!

Computers for Development.....GK3 Programme taking shape ....ICVolunteers instrumental in Africa@home project, Volunteer Computing for Africa .....UN Secretary-General endorses Connect Africa Summit in Kigali, Rwanda .....ECA and WHO to launch a study on Africa Health Infoway ....South African stakeholders assess the use of ICTs in facilitating trade .....Swaziland NICI officially launched ...... Nigeria successfully launched satellite- NIGCOMSAT-1 ......Update on GAID Youth Forum .....Uganda’s 79 districts to get e-link by 2010 .....South Africa to invest $700 million on a new submarine cable to cut Web costs .....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 63,  May-June 2007!

GKP Africa preparatory meeting for GK III ....ICT Best Practices Forum for West and Central Africa ....GKP Celebrates a Decade of Partnership Excellence....GKP Releases its Annual Report 2006 ....IICD highlights the importance of ICT for poverty reduction ...Regulators and Industrialists address ICT infrastructure gap in Africa: ICT seen as catalyst for overall development....New online tool charts cyber security standards developments: Essential guidance for cyber security architects ....Second Meeting of the fifth African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC-5) ....Anglophone African countries call for sharing experiences in addressing gender mainstreaming in ICT strategies ...Experts assess Ghana's e-trade progress ....Workshop held to boost ICT, STI awareness in Ugandan parliament ....ICT significantly impacting Egyptian economy ....West African countries urge ECA to continue work on e-commerce .....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 62,  April 2007!

ICT Best Practices Forum for West and Central Africa ....Hivos and IICD extend partnership ..... Gender & e-Government Workshop to be held in Maputo, Mozambique .... ECA, SDC, and GKP organising African preparatory meeting to GK III with a special focus on “Knowledge and Access” ....The fifth Committee on Development Information (CODI-V) .....African government innovation in information technology rewarded ......E-commerce the way forward for Africa, new book says A report on rural connectivity in Tanzania: options and challenges .....Nigeria's First Internet Exchange Ready ....

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 61,  March 2007!

GKP Members requested to submit proposals for activities or events at GK3 ....IICD connectivity model presented at World Bank conference .... Partnership’s Core ICT indicators endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission .....African Network of the Global Alliance for ICT and Development (GAID) launched ......ECA supports Mozambique in the areas of ICTs, Science and Technology .....Egypt: NEPAD e-schools officially launched .....Kenya sets up ICT advisory body .....South Africa- Information Society and Development (ISAD) Plan .....Zambia launches ICT Policy ......

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 60,  February 2007!

ECA-ITU-UNCTAD Regional Workshop on Information Society Measurements in Africa ... GK III Launched....GKP Releases Summary Results of Consultation for 10th UN Round Table on C4D......New publication from ITU: Measuring the Information Society 2007 - ICT Opportunity Index and World Telecommunication/ICT Indicators .......Building an inclusive Information Society in the SADC Region: Making ICTs work in Parliaments......The North Africa Development Forum on Trade for Growth and Job Creation....The Africa node for the Global Alliance on ICT and Development (GAID) to be launched ....Experts Confirm ICT as tool for growth and competitiveness in African economies ....Eassy renamed The Nepad Broadband Infrastructure Network .... ...

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PICTA Bulletin, Number 59,  January 2007!

GKP announces the Stockholm Challenge GKP Awards 2007 ....GKP at ICANN’s 27th International Public Meeting .....GTP represented in UN Steering Committee on Global Alliance for ICT and Development .....New Director at IDRC ....GKP Africa Resource Mobilization Workshop .....ECA, ECOWAS and UEMOA to chart a legal framework for ICT development in West Africa .....R&D Bulletin by AISI Academia Research Network (ARN) Cameroon group working on Electronic Rural School in Cameroon local language .....ECA-CEEAC-CEMAC Workshop on ICT Strategy for Central Africa ....Harambee Workshop ....WIPO Press Release on Traditional Knowledge and Traditional and Cultural Expressions .....Towards an African e-Index: SME e-Access and Usage .....SANGONeT attempting a rescue of poorly performing telecentres ....2007 ICANN Nominating Committee Issues Formal Call for Statements of Interest .....

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Forum on ICTs, Trade and Economic Growth
14 - 16 March 2006, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is organizing a Forum on ICTs, Trade and Economic Growth under the auspices of the Africa Node of the Global ePolicy Resource Network (ePol-NET) and in partnership with the Canadian ePolicy Resource Centre (CePRC) from 14-16 March 2006 at the United Nations Conference Centre (UNCC) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The Forum will uniquely combine learning, expertise sharing (South-South and North-South), interactive dialogue, networking and business matching and be used as a launch pad for the African ICTs, Trade and Economic Growth Initiative.

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ICT Partners Reflect on Africa’s Infrastructure Challenges
Mercy Wambui/ECA

Members of Partners in Communication and Information Technologies for Africa (PICTA) and Global Knowledge Partners (GKP) began a two-day meeting on 7 September 2005 in Addis Ababa, to reflect on “Making Infrastructure and Access Efforts in Africa More Effective”.

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PICTA Events: 7 - 13 Sep 2005, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

2005 PICTA/GKP Meeting (7 - 8 Sep 2005)
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The 2005 annual PICTA meeting will take place in Addis Ababa from 7 - 8 September under the theme "Networking Development in Africa". PICTA members and invited guests are expected to put extra effort into strengthening PICTA as an arena for collaboration among the key institutions involved with ICT and Knowledge for Development in Africa. To achieve this goal the annual meeting will be joined by GKP Africa members and held as a PICTA-GKP meeting.

Network Facilitation Training Workshop (9 - 10 Sep 2005)
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The main theme of the Network Facilitation Workshop is "Deepening Regional Networks and Linking Them with Global Networks for Greater Impact". The workshop will be oriented toward giving participants training in participatory facilitation methods for face-to-face meetings, linked with the use of ICTs such as WIKIS in order to help produce outputs as the meeting is taking place.

First meeting for the Harambee Focus Networks (12 - 13 Sep 2005)
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The “Harambee: Reinforcing African Voices through Collaborative Processes” is a PICTA initiative created by APC, Bellanet Africa and UNECA. The project intends to build on existing research and experiences in designing and implementing collaborative processes and technologies. The objective of the meeting is for Focus Networks to develop action plans on how and in which areas the Harambee project can assist them in the next 1 ­ 2 years. Participants will focus on their own respective networks and on the areas (such as facilitation, knowledge sharing, etc.) for which they feel the greatest need and the greatest opportunity for development through the Harambee project.

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