Category archive for ‘Newsroom’

• May

  2012

  2

  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 [...]

   
• 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

  26

  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

  25

  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 [...]

   
• Mar

  2012

  29

  14th Africa-EU Joint Task Force Meeting (March 8-9, 2012) (0)

  

  The fourteenth meeting of the Africa-EU Joint Task Force (JTF) was held on March 8-9, 2012 in Brussels, Belgium.

   
• Mar

  2012

  20

  Internet speed rank in Africa (0)

  

  Ghana has been ranked number one in Africa as the country with the highest Internet speed, according to the latest global internet speed report released March 5, 2012 by US-based, Ookla.
  Ookla is the global leader in broadband testing and web-based network diagnostic applications, and its report was based on millions of recent test results from [...]

   
• Feb

  2012

  23

  Call for proposals: INTRA-ACP academic mobility scheme (0)

  

  The call for proposals for the “Intra-ACP academic mobility scheme” has been published by the European Commission on February 10, 2012. This call aims at aims to strengthen cooperation between higher education institutions (HEIs) in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific in view of increasing access to quality education that will encourage and enable [...]

   
• Feb

  2012

  17

  Orange launches new service to make Facebook accessible on every phone in Africa (0)

  

  Orange is launching a new service to provide swift, simple, and cost effective mobile access to Facebook for an even wider range of customers.
  Facebook via USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data) allows all Orange customers to access the service, regardless of the phone that they are using. Even users with older or very basic handsets without [...]

   
• Feb

  2012

  15

  The AU summit adopted the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) (0)

  

  African Heads of State endorsed the launch of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), a multi-billion dollar initiative that will run through 2040.
  In a statement at their 18th summit held in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, on January 30, 2012, the Heads of State approved the implementation of the recommendations in the study on [...]

   
• Feb

  2012

  9

  African Union Research Grant: Open call 2012 (0)

  

  The African Union Commission is seeking proposals for research focusing on the following thematic priorities articulated in Africa’s Science and Technology Consolidated Plan of Action (CPA) and its Lighthouse Projects:
  (a) Post-harvest and Agriculture,
  (b) Renewable and Sustainable Energy, and
  (c) Water and Sanitation in Africa.
  The programme is financed through the Financing Agreement between the European Commission and [...]