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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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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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Agenda]
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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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