Economic Commission for Africa - Top Stories http://www.uneca.org/ News Front Page en-us Copyright 2011, Economic Commission for Africa ECA and Spanish partner launch CREATIC4AFRICA to enhance creativity and technological innovation in African Youth http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Press_Releases/2011_pressreleases/mainpressrelease1111.html 22 February 2011 ECA Press Release No. 11/2011 Addis Ababa, 22 February 2011 (ECA) - The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Spanish-based Technology Centre for ICTs (CTIC), have launched the CREATIC 4AFRICA programme for 2011 to establish an innovation hub for Africas’s youth who are keen to create new ICT-based applications to better their societies. Committee of Experts Opens Its Fifteenth Session with a Focus on Sustaining Tourism Industry in Eastern Africa http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Press_Releases/2011_pressreleases/mainpressrelease1011.html 21 February 2011 ECA Press Release No. 10/2011 Djibouti, 21 February 2011 (ECA) - Innovative systems to enable retention of tourism revenues, regional coordination to avoid duplicity, and deployment of resources are key to sustaining the tourism industry in Eastern Africa, said Ali Farah Assoweh, Minister of Finance, Economy, Planning and Privatization of the Republic of Djibouti as he officially opened the four-day 15th Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) meeting under the theme, “Towards a sustainable tourism industry in Eastern Africa”. . Nigeria's plan to launch national ICT measurement (Scan-ICT) programme gets underway http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Press_Releases/2011_pressreleases/mainpressrelease0911.html 07 February 2011 ECA Press Release No. 09/2011 Addis Ababa, 07 February 2011 (ECA) - A three-day working visit by a Nigerian delegation to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) took place on 7-9 February 2011 in preparation for the launch of Nigeria’s national Scan-ICT programme. Experts to discuss how diversification and south-south cooperation can unlock economic potential of Southern Africa http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Press_Releases/2011_pressreleases/mainpressrelease0811.html 04 February 2011 04 February 2011 Addis Ababa, 04 February 2011(ECA) – At the invitation of the Government of the Republic of Namibia, the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, Southern Africa Office (ECA-SA), will convene the 17th Meeting of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of Southern Africa from 17-18 March 2011 in Windhoek, Namibia to examine how diversification can unlock development in the subregion.   Experts from West Africa to review progress towards the attainment of MDGs in the ECOWAS subregion http://www.uneca.org/eca_resources/Press_Releases/2011_pressreleases/mainpressrelease0711.html 02 February 2011 ECA Press Release No. 07/2011 Niamey, 02 February 2011 (ECA) – The Fourteenth Session of the Intergovernmental Committee of Experts (ICE) of West Africa will be held by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) Sub regional office for West Africa (SRO-WA) on 11-12 March, 2011 in Freetown, Sierra Leone.