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Youth from Ethiopia, Senegal and Cape Verde to present results of their ICT based innovations
ECA Press Release No. 76/2012
Addis Ababa, 22 May 2012 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the Technology Centre for ICTs (CTIC) are organizing a special event on 'Innovation in ICTs- the CREATIC4AFRICA initiative' on June 4 2012 at the United Nations Conference Centre to hear from the five winners of the CREATIC4AFRICA programme.
Five African fellows from Cape Verde, Ethiopia and Senegal were selected to develop an innovative ICT-based application that would respond to particular needs of their communities and remain commercially viable and sustainable.
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Science With Africa e-Newsletter - Issue No. 11 - April 2012
Ins this issue: African ingenuity celebrated at the 2012 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards ceremony, UNECA Biomedical Engineering Initiative for improved healthcare expands , UNECA released the new version of GeoNyms 2.0
, Aida Opoku-Mensah wins the Leadership Award for Making a Difference ,
UNECA supports Ethiopia to draft E-Commerce Law, ECA to assist Tanzania undertake its ICT policy review ,The First African Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation opened
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ECA donates books to Dire Dawa University
ECA Press Release No. 71/2012
Addis Ababa, 14 May 2012 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa(EC) library service donated over one thousand books to Dire Dawa University as part of its outreach efforts to disseminate ECA's publications throughout the region.
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Nigeria's ICT Measurement Report launched
ECA Press Release No. 59/2012
Addis Ababa, 30 April 2012 (ECA) -The Nigerian National ICT Development Agency (NITDA) and the ICT and Science and Technology Division (ISTD) launched the Nigeria SCAN-ICT final report during a Stakeholders' validation workshop in Abuja on 26 April 2012.
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ECA Director awarded during Geospatial World Forum
ECA Press Release No. 55/2012
Amsterdam, 25 April 2012 (ECA) - On the occasion of Geospatial World Forum, Geospatial World Magazine has recognized and honoured outstanding Programmes, Professionals, Entrepreneurs, Organisations, and Academic Institutions, who have made significant contribution towards development of geographic information science, technology, products, applications, capacity development and in turn helped towards the growth of the geospatial industry as well as making geographic information a public commodity. |
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SADC experts adopt e-commerce strategy to fast-track intra-regional trade, economic integration
ECA Press Release No. 54/2012
Balaclava, Mauritius, 24 April 2012 (ECA) - The e-commerce readiness assessment report, strategy and plan of action for the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) which has been under review since 2010 is now ready for submission to the ICT Ministerial meeting next month, according to experts who validated the documents in Mauritius last week.
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Rwanda Officially Launches the Rwanda Innovation Endowment Fund
Supporting innovators, protecting their knowledge, commercializing their innovation
ECA Press Release No. 48/2012
Kigali, 05 April 2012 (ECA) - Today, the Government of Rwanda officially launched the Rwanda Innovation Endowment Fund (RIEF) to fund research and development in innovative market oriented processes and products in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and One UN Rwanda.
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Africa Forum on Science Technology and Innovation Opened
ECA Press Release No. 47/2012
Nairobi, 03 April 2012 (ECA) – A three-day Science Technology and Innovation Forum opened March 31st in Nairobi, Kenya on the theme, "Youth Employment, Human Capital Development and Inclusive Growth".
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African ingenuity celebrated at the 2012 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) awards ceremony
ECA Press Release No. 40/2012
Addis Ababa, 27 March 2012 (ECA) - Mr. Mohammed Sanad, professor at the Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University, Egypt has won the inaugural Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA) 2012. The announcement was made during a glittering gala dinner in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia attended by ministers of finance, central bank governors, government representatives, the media, the private sector and civil society actors. Professor Sanad won the $100,000 prize for developing a low-cost, lightweight, low wind-load, foldable/deployable, multi-broadband base station antenna; using dual parabolic cylindrical reflectors with novel small size broadband resonant feeds.
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Egyptian Wins First Innovation Prize for Africa
ECA Press Release No. 39/2012
Addis Ababa, 26 March 2012 (ECA) - The United Nation Economic Commission for Africa and the Africa Innovation Foundation hosted an awards ceremony to celebrate African ingenuity. The ceremony took place on the sidelines of the ongoing Conference of ministers of Finance and planning that is deliberating the actions needed to turn Africa into a New Growth Pole for the global economy. The annual awards honour and encourage innovative achievements that contribute toward developing new products, increasing efficiency or saving cost in Africa.
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Media actors exchange ideas on Africa's potential as new pole of global growth
ECA Press Release No. 32/2012
Addis Ababa, 21 March 2012 (ECA) – A one-day media workshop was held Wednesday, for journalists from around Africa covering this year's Joint Annual Meetings of the African Union Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance and the ECA Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
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UNECA and UIRI partner to promote engineering innovations for improved healthcare in Uganda
ECA Press Release No. 31/2012
Kampala, 16 March 2012 (ECA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Uganda Industrial Research Institute (UIRI) and their key national partners- Makerere University and Kyambogo university; have agreed to forge a close collaboration to promote biomedical engineering for improved healthcare in the country.
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A one-day national workshop of the RIIA-E was held at the UNECA Headquarters on 15 March 2012
Addis Ababa, 15 March 2012 (ECA) - The workshop was attended by over hundred participants drawn from government and academic institutions, individual inventors as well as private sector representatives. It was organized by ICT, Science & Technology Division (ISTD) of the ECA and the RIIA-E as a follow-up to the outcomes of the second Science with Africa conference.
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The First Innovation Prize for Africa to be awarded in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
ECA Press Release No. 27/2012
Addis Ababa, 12 March 2012 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) are delighted to announce the establishment of the African Innovation Prize worth USD 100,000 for the winner and USD 50,000 for the runner-up.
The prize will be presented for the first time on 26 March 2012 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the sidelines of a Conference of African Finance Ministers will be meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia later this month to discuss the actions needed to turn Africa into a New Growth Pole for the global economy.
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Science With Africa e-Newsletter - Issue No. 10 - December 2011
In this issue: Six African Universities Adopt a Generic Biomedical Engineering Curriculum, ANDI strides towards the implementation of programs in Africa, Workshop on knowledge sharing & networking for community information centres, Framework to measure government ICT-based service delivery adopted in Mauritius, Conference on AIGF, AGIS 2011, First Forum of the UN Global Geospatial Information Management (GGIM) Initiative, Ethiopia: First Science Congress Opened, Women Scientists Honored At Pan African University Launch, and more ...
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ECA to assist Tanzania on its ICT policy review
ECA Press Release No. 12/2012
Dar es Salaam, 16 February 2012 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will lead the review process for the national ICT policy of Tanzania in cooperation with its Ministry of Communication, Science and Technology and the Government of Finland. The review process will focus on a second policy that actively involves stakeholders, as well as take into account current emerging trends, incorporating issues such as cyber-security, e-security, and reflecting Tanzania's national development vision 2025.
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UNECA to support Kenyatta University establish a Biomedical Engineering Program
ECA Press Release No. 09/2012
Nairobi, 06 February 2012 (ECA) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Kenyatta University have agreed to work together in building a biomedical engineering programme at the university.
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Experts meeting to review e-commerce readiness of SADC member countries started
ECA Press Release No. 04/2012
Luanda, Angola, 24 January 2012 (ECA) A two-day mid-term review meeting of the SADC study on e-commerce opened this week in Luanda, Angola and brought together more than 40 ICT experts from Angola, Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Lesotho, Mauritius and South-Africa.
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ECA, Government of Egypt commit to foster ties in ICT development
ECA Press Release No. 02/2012
Addis Ababa, 19 January 2012 (ECA) - The Government of Egypt and the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to participate in the development of Information and Communication Technology to foster the implementation of action lines of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS).
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