Advance Announcement
Theme: “Information and
Governance”
Tentative Date: May 2003
Venue: United
Nations Conference Center (UNCC)
Addis Ababa,
Ethiopia
What’s
CODI?
CODI I & CODI II
CODI III
Format of the meeting
Who can participate?
How to participate?
Contact Information
What’s CODI?
The meeting of the CODI, organized
every two years by ECA, is being convened in accordance with Resolution 826 (XXXII)
adopted in May 1997 at its twenty-third meeting by the ECA Conference of African Ministers
responsible for Economic and Social Development and Planning. Ensuring the implementation
of the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), the CODI has also subsumed the
functions of the Joint Conference of African Planners, Statisticians, Population and
Information Specialists, and of the United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference for
Africa. The Committee is one of ECA’s seven subsidiary bodies and provides policy and
technical guidance for the sub-programme "Harnessing information for
development". It reports on its sessions to the Conference of Ministers of the
Economic Commission for Africa. CODI’s ToR is available at: http://www.uneca.org/codi
The CODI acts as a node that attaches
regional dimensions to information strategies and programmes. It helps to define,
articulate, and agree on common positions to foster the cooperation among member States
and with their partners.
The first CODI was
held from 28 June to 2 July 1999, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the theme: “Harnessing
information for development”. The second meeting (CODI II) was held from 4 to 7
September 2001 on the theme: “Development Information and Decision Making”.
Further information is available at: http://www.uneca.org/codi
CODI III
The third CODI meeting (CODI III) is being
prepared by the Development Information Services Division of the ECA with the assistance
of the Economic and Social Policy Division (ESPD), It will be held in May 2003 at the
headquarters of ECA in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The theme of the meeting is “Information
for Governance”.
Format of the meeting
For operational reasons, and so as to enable
CODI discharge its responsibilities in an effective, coordinated and focused manner, the
meeting is organized in plenary and Sub-committee sessions. To that effect three
sub-committees have been established in each of the specialized fields, namely:
Information and communication technologies, library, documentation and information
services; Geo-information; and Statistics.
The sub-committees may establish ad-hoc or
standing workings groups, as necessary, for the duration of the meeting, between meetings
and as long as necessary. A joint report on plenary and sub-committees meetings shall be
agreed at a final plenary meeting.
Apart from the plenary and the sub-committees
sessions, a series of workshops are planned to take place in conjunction with the meeting.
The topics of the workshops are still being defined, and interested participants are
invited to make their suggestions to the programme committee. Tentative topics include
spatial data clearing house and metadata, e-governance/government, virtual library
networks for governance, statistics for improved governance, etc.
Who can participate?
Official country delegates composed of statisticians, information
and geo-information specialists and librarians who are government officials of the members
States of the Economic Commission for Africa.
Observers from national regional/international organizations, IGOs,
NGOs, the academia and research institutions, the private sector and the industry.
How to participate?
Note:
Formal invitations will be sent through the usual channels: The invitations to member
States will be channeled through the Ministries of Foreign Affairs and existing embassies
in Addis Ababa, Copies of the invitations to the governments will be sent to the national
agencies and other focal points responsible for statistics, ICT and Geoinformation. Observers will be
invited directly by DISD.
Participation
can be made in various ways:
Contact
the relevant government agency in your country to be included in the country delegation to
one of the subcommittees;
Contact
CODI secretariat at the address below to be considered for invitation as an observer;
Proposals
from parties interested in organizing workshops on relevant themes, and/or in sponsoring
participants to the workshops, are welcome.
Contact Information
For further information on CODI III, please
contact:
Mr. Chukwudozie
Ezigbalike
Tel. +251 1
444569
Fax: +251 1 510512
E-mail: cezigbal@uneca.org
Ms. Azeb Abay
Tel: +251 1 445347
Fax: +251 1 510512
E-mail: aabay@uneca.org
Ms. Sofanit Abebe
Tel: +251 1 443316
Fax: +251 1 510512
E-Mail : sofanita@uneca.org
CODI-III Secretariat
Development
Information Services Division
Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
P.O. Box 3001
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
http://www.uneca.org/codi |