Events - Organised by ECA and its partners

Title of Event

Time Organized by Venue

Friday, 11 - Saturday, 12 November 2005

African Group Ministerial Meeting

  Government of Ghana on behalf of the African Ministerial Committee  
       

Sunday, 13 November 2005

Resumed PrepCom

  WSIS  Le Kram
       

Monday, 14 November 2005

Resumed PrepCom

  WSIS  Le Kram

What’s Next After WSIS?

  IDRC, SDC  

Building Partnerships Workshop

9:00 - 5:00 GKP El-Hana International Tunisia

AAU Conference on African Research and Education Networking

8:30 - 17:30 AAU, IDRC, OSISA, World Bank, The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa Corinthia Khamsa Hotel, Les Côtes De Carthage, Gammarth
       

Tuesday, 15 November 2005

Opening ceremony of ICT 4 All Exhibition

Morning WSIS ICT 4 All Exhibition
Resumed PrepCom   WSIS Le Kram
AAU Conference on African Research and Education Networking  8:30 - 12:30 AAU, IDRC, OSISA, World Bank, The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa Corinthia Khamsa Hotel, Les Côtes De Carthage, Gammarth

Workshop on "Measuring the Information Society"

Technical Assistance & Capacity Building on Statistics on the Information: The case of Africa, Aida Opoku-Mensah, OIC, DISD/ECA >

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09:00 - 17:00 Partnership on ICT indicators composed of the 5 United Nations Regional Commissions (ECA, ECE, ECLAC, ESCWA), Eurostat, ITU, OECD, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UN ICT Task Force and the World Bank. Le Kram

ECA/GKP Africa Event: Demonstration on ECA’s Virtual Learning Academy (vLAC)

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13:00 - 13:45 ECA as the regional node for GKP ICT4All Exhibition, Kram PalExpo

iConnectAfrica Launch

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14:00 - 14:30 ECA, IICD ICT4All Exhibition, Kram PalExpo

Celebrating MSPs Including AISI/GKP/SDC Media Awards ceremony

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17:00 - 19:00 ECA, SDC, GKP Central Stage, Kram Exhibition Hall
       

Wednesday, 16 November 2005

AU-ECA Discussion on "the African Regional Action Plan on the Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE)"

ARAPKE document >

09:00 - 10:00 African Union, ECA Le Kram

ePol-NET Event

Documents/Presentations >

09:00 - 10:00 ECA, CePRC  

Panel 1: Building Regional Partnerships for the Information Society: Regional Perspectives and Global Dimensions

Chair: His Excellency Mr. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda

Panel 2: Women in the information society: building a gender balanced knowledge-based economy

Chair: His Excellency Mr. Leonel Fernández, President of the Dominican Republic

Documents/Presentations >

 

13:00 - 17:00 United Nations Regional Commissions (ECA, ECLAC, ECE, ESCAP, ESCWA), UNCTAD and the UN ICT Task Force Le Kram
Egypt's Success Story in Using the Debt Swap as a Funding Mechanism for ICT 13:00 - 15:00 Economic Research Forum La Goulette Hall
From Talk to Action:-Rwanda'sInformation Society Solutions 14:00 - 17:30 Government of Rwanda in collaboration with private sector Kram Exhibition Hall, Expo5
"Partnership announcements" on the Information Society in Africa 17:00 - 19:00 African Union and ECA Le Kram
La dynamique Technopolitaine et sa contribution à l’émergence d’une industrie TIC 17:00 - 19:00 Pôle El Gazala des Technologies de la Communication en collaboration avec Marseille Innovation, CEA, TMI, 2CW Salle Béja
       

Thursday, 17 November 2005

Legal Issues in the Global Information Society 09:00 - 11:00 Center for International Legal Studies Kram Exhibition Centre, Room Gafsa

ECA/GKP Africa Youth Event: Panel on “Empowering African Youth Social Entrepreneurs”

Documents/Presentations >

10:00 - 13:30 ECA as the regional node for GKP Expo Room 8

Egypt’s Reception

14:00 - 16:00 Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Egypt The Central place, ICT4All Exhibition, Kram PalExpo

InfoDev Forum "Do ICT Strategies Matter"?

15:00 - 16:30 World Bank Hannibal Room

Panel Discussion on the Finnish Information Society

15:00 - 17:00 Government of Finland Kram PalExpo, Mehdia Hall
       

Friday, 18 November 2005

ECA/GKP Africa Event: Demonstration on Addis Ababa University (AAU) VarsityNet project on “development of multi-lingual content management system”

12:00 - 12:45 ECA as the regional node for GKP ICT4All Exhibition, Kram PalExpo

ECA/GKP Africa Event: Panel on " Financing Knowledge in Africa"

14:00 - 15:30 ECA, AU, NEPAD, ADB and SDC Kairouan Room

GKP EXCOMM meeting

18:00 - 20:00 GKP EXPO Conference Room 1

 

:: Calendar of events leading to the WSIS, Tunis phase


 

 
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