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• Jan

  2012

  31

  2nd CAAST-Net Stakeholders’ Conference (0)

  

  [ April 24, 2012 to April 25, 2012] This conference is hosted by the Ministry of Scientific Research of Senegal. Preparation and implementation of the conference is supported by the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology of Kenya, the International Bureau of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, the University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and the Science and Technology Policy Research Institute, Ghana through the EU-funded project CAAST-Net.

   
• Dec

  2011

  14

  Establishment of two new NREN in Niger and Cote d’Ivoire (0)

  

  WACREN membership has expanded to six with the coming online of the Niger and Cote d’Ivoire NREN.
  The consultation workshop on the implementation of the Niger NREN began Tuesday, November 15, 2011, under the patronage of HE Mamadou Diallo Youba, Minister of Secondary and Higher Education and Scientific Research. Before the opening address by the Minister, [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  14

  KENET awarded best ICT projects implementer (0)

  

  Kenya Education Network (KENET), one of the founding NRENs of the UbuntuNet Alliance, is this year’s winner of the prestigious CIO 100 Annual Awards.
  The CIO East Africa CIO 100 Annual Awards recognise institutions that deploy ICT in an innovative manner while bringing out business value at the same time. The award was issued at a [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  6

  Africa gets new ICT platform for health research (0)

  

  The European Commission has launched a project to improve health research and education in Africa by setting up excellence centres supported by advanced information and communications technologies (ICT).
  One of its foremost goals is to build networks of researchers and synergies with other cooperative health projects in Africa (e.g., led by Europe and the United States).
  The [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  1

  ICT-based Entrepreneurship for Development ­ Best Practices in Africa (0)

  

  [ December 5, 2011 ] The event, taking place at the Stanhope Hotel in Brussels, Belgium on Dec. 5, 2011, aims at identifying the policy and business requirements that foster ICT-based entrepreneurship and bottom-up developments in Africa by looking at best practices examples. The debate will be based on the presentation of a study conducted by Hystra and Ashoka [...]

   
• Dec

  2011

  1

  Zoran Mitrovic, UWC, South Africa (0)

  

  “It was a good event, providing valuable networking opportunities. This is “a must” event for ICT-related Euro-Africa cooperation”

   
• Dec

  2011

  1

  Bertie Buitendag, Tshwane University of Technology, South Africa (0)

  

  “The event was very well orginised, with informitive topics presented by relevant experts in their prospective fields. I is a great networking opportunity, as well as getting access to current trends and available sources of knowledge exchange.”

   
• Dec

  2011

  1

  Anwar Vahed, CSIR, South Africa (0)

  

  “This event has allowed me to understand more clearly, what the priority areas are for Africa in terms of ICT and gave a very good overview of the current state of ICT R&D solutions for African challenges. I have made good contacts with researchers in my domain, and strengthened already existing relationships.”

   
• Dec

  2011

  1

  Eletta Omodele, University of Ilorin, Nigeria (0)

  

  “There are several burning issues in the mind of members that policies in the various countries do not allow to come to the forefront. Delibrations at the forum appears to be charting a course to address some of these fundamental issues which is expected to move the continent forward. The forum was so educative and [...]

   
• Nov

  2011

  29

  Proceedings – 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  PPT presentations of the event are now available!
  Please note: if panelists didn’t use PowerPoints, their name is not listed in the table below (this is the case of sessions organised as roundtable and panel discussions)

  Monday, November 14

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