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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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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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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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