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• May

  2012

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  2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT – Mark your calendar! (0)

  

  [ November 28, 2012 to November 29, 2012] The EuroAfrica-P8 Partnership is very pleased to announce that this year edition of the “Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT” (an event designed to anyone with an interest in Euro-African collaborative project on ICT) will be held on November 28-29, 2012, at the Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) in Lisbon, Portugal. The event is organised by [...]

   
• May

  2012

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  Next EuroAfrica-ICT Awareness & Training Workshop – Registrations are now open! (0)

  

  The next EuroAfrica-ICT FP7 Awareness & Training Workshop is taking place on June 13-14, 2012 in Maseru (Lesotho).
  This workshop aims at raising awareness in Africa on the ICT theme of the European Union’s Framework Programmes (FP) for Research and Development and at enhancing the participation of African organisations in EU-funded, collaborative ICT research projects. This [...]

   
• May

  2012

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  The Role of ICT Research Infrastructures in Horizon 2020 (0)

  

  [ June 20, 2012 ] The Horizon 2020 EU framework program for research and innovation will build on 3 major pillars: tackling Societal Challenges, creating Industrial Leadership and establishing Excellence in Science. As an essential part of these major objectives is the provisioning of excellent research infrastructures (including ICT research infrastructures). This strategic event will discuss the important question on [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  BIC Workshops on International Cooperation and Trustworthy ICT (0)

  

  [ June 21, 2012 to June 22, 2012] The BIC project is organising in Brussels (Belgium) two workshops over two full days:

  The workshop on Cross domain coordination of International Cooperation (INCO) is taking place on June 21, 2012, with the aim of: a/. Determining the ways to move forward on international cooperation, and future calls for collaborative research; b/. Forming the current bi-lateral (and [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  Call for papers: Africa-wide women and young professionals in science competitions (0)

  

  The Africa-wide competitions will evaluate, recognize and reward the contributions of women and young professionals who are involved in: pioneering and innovative research; communicating their research results and technological developments; and advocating for policy change as well as influencing policy processes through their research. They will also raise awareness of the need for valuing and [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  AfNOG and AfriNIC meetings (0)

  

  [ May 6, 2012 to May 18, 2012] The African Network Operators’ Group (AfNOG) and the African Network Information Centre (AfriNIC) are jointly organizing a two-week event that includes the AfNOG Workshop on Network Technology (offering advanced training in a week-long hands-on workshop), several full-day Advanced Tutorials, a one-day AfNOG Meeting, and a two-day AfriNIC Meeting. In addition, several side meetings and workshops will [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  AFRICOMM 2012 Conference (0)

  

  [ November 12, 2012 to November 14, 2012] The fourth International Conference on e‐Infrastructure and e‐Services for Developing Countries will take place in Yaounde, Cameroon on November 12–14, 2012.

  AFRICOMM 2012 aims to bring together researchers, practitioners, and policy makers in ICT to discuss issues and trends, recent research, innovation advances and on-the-field experiences related to e-Infrastructure, e-Governance, e-Business, and enabling policy and regulations [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  The EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative represented at the 2nd CAAST-NET Stakeholder Conference (0)

  

  The 2nd CAAST-Net Stakeholders’ Conference “Steps to Innovation” took place in Dakar, Senegal on April 24-25, 2012.
  The conference has been conceived by the organizers as an opportunity to enrich and strengthen the Africa-Europe STI cooperation relationship through providing a forum for exchange of opinions, sharing and mutual learning between stakeholders and experts from Africa and [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  New high-speed link connects African radio astronomers to Europe through GÉANT and UbuntuNet (0)

  

  Radio astronomers in Africa and across the globe will benefit from faster collaboration through a dedicated, high speed 15,000 km network link between the pan-European GÉANT and African UbuntuNet Alliance education networks.
  The 2Gbps point-to-point circuit will enable astronomers at the Hartebeesthoek Radio Astronomy Observatory (HartRAO) in South Africa to stream observational data to the Joint [...]

   
• Apr

  2012

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  Conference: ‘Broadband as a Video Platform – Strategies for Africa’ (0)

  

  [ May 22, 2012 to May 23, 2012] Columbia University’s Institute for Tele-Information, in partnership with global sponsors from business and academia, will host the inaugural conference on Broadband as a Video Platform – Strategies for Africa at the Intercontinental Hotel in Lusaka, Zambia, on May 22 and 23, 2012.

  This unique event will address the strategies and building blocks for Africa’s deployment and [...]