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What
Does ISTD do?
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The
African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
remains the key framework for the development
and implementation of national e-strategies of
National Information and Communication Infrastructure
(NICI) plans. With ECA's assistance, approximately
32 African countries have already developed such
strategies and in the coming years, efforts will
be geared towards financing the NICI process,
building the implementation capacity of relevant
institutions and stakeholders and harmonizing
regulatory and legal frameworks. |
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| :: Promoting information for decision-making |
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ECA provides training on the potential synergies created by combining statistical techniques and spatial data with a specific application to poverty mapping and country poverty profiles. |
:: Building NICI implementation capacity |
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In order to empower and build local capacity to speed up the process of the implementation of NICI plans, ECA provides regulatory and policy expertise, multimedia resources, guidance and advisory services in support of among others, governance issues, especially in the context of the e-Policy Resource Network (ePol-NET) of which ECA is the African Regional Node. |
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Knowledge
sharing and outreach |
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Raising awareness constituted AISI's major activity
at its initial launch. This has now been expanded
and targeted at a broad spectrum of stakeholders
through its Knowledge Sharing, Outreach and
Communication component, where emerging topics
like Internet governance, intellectual property
rights and African languages for content development
feature.
ISTD's Information Technology Centre for Africa
(ITCA) offers ICT policy online manuals and
training for policy makers, parliamentarians and
media through its Virtual Learning Project. ITCA
has further expanded on existing activities through
providing applications to support local governance
land administration and HIV/AIDS awareness in
Ethiopia. The project will provide critical information
through multimedia and touch-screen kiosks in
several local languages. |
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