What is SCAN-ICT?

Why Scan-ICT project?
Methodology of SCAN-ICT
Terms ofreference of phase II
Scan-ICT in other countries

 

Partners
  • The Economic Commission for Africa ECA
  • Le Centre de recherches pour le développement international (CRDI)
  • European Union (EU)
  • The Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD)

 

Programmes and Initiatives
  • African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
  • Partnership for ICTs in Africa (PICTA)
  • Programme Acacia

SCAN-ICT in other countries

 

Project SCAN-ICT sponsored by the Research Center for the International Development (CRDI) and the Economic Commission of the United Nations for Africa (ECA), aims at the realization of an observatory regional on information technologies in Africa.

The task of the observatory is to provide to the users reliable indicators on information technologies, their evolutions and penetration in various socio-economic sectors of the African countries taking part in the project.

In its pilot phase, the following institutions took part in it:

Ethiopia: the pilot project is carried out by Economics Department of the University of Addis Ababa

Ghana: the pilot project is carried out by the International Institute for Information Technology (INIT).

Mozambique: the pilot project is carried out by Center for Informatics Eduardo Mondlane University (CIUM) and its site can be consulted in the following address: http://www.scan-ict.uem.mz/

Morocco: the pilot project is carried out by ITIGEO (Data-processing Information Technologies and Géomatique) and its site can be consulted in the following address: http://scanict.marwan.ac.ma/.

Uganda: the pilot project is carried out by Uganda National Council for Science and Technology (UNST).

Senegal: the pilot project is carried out by the Observatory on the information systems, the networks and the info highways in Senegal (OSIRIS). Its site can be consulted in the following address: http://www.osiris.sn

Countries concerned by the pilot phase

 

Countries selected for the second phase
  • Ethiopia
  • Ghana
  • Tunisia
  • Mozambique
  • Gambia
  • Mauritania
  • Rwanda
  • Swaziland
  • Cameroon
 
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