Agenda at a glance
| DAY 1 – November 14, 2011 | ||||
| 07:30+ am | Registrations and welcome of participants | |||
| 09:00 – 10:00 am | Opening session and Welcome Addresses |
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| 10:00 – 10:20 am | Presentation Session ICT-enabled Development Strategies |
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| 10:20 – 10:45 am | Coffee & tea break | |||
| 10:45 – 11:45 am | Presentation Session The AU-EU Programmes and their Supporting Cooperation Frameworks – Priorities, Implementation Statuts and Remaining Challenges |
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| 11:45 am – 12:45 pm | Roundtable Discussion The Role and Priorities of the African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as Building Blocks for Regional Integration through ICT Networks |
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| 12:45 – 02:00 pm | Networking buffet lunch | |||
| 02:00 – 03:30 pm | Roundtable Discussion How to support efficient and innovative ICT Public-Private Partnership (PPP)? |
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| 03:30 – 04:00 pm | Coffee & tea break | |||
| 04:00 – 05:30 pm | Presentation Session Africa-EU Cooperation on Open Living Labs (local innovation & technology transfer): Status & Perspectives |
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| 05:30 – 06:00 pm | Keynote Address + Conclusions of the day Building Sustainable Capacity for Poverty Reduction in Africa |
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| 06:00 pm | End of Day 1 | |||
| 07:00 – 10:00 pm | Networking buffet dinner | |||
| DAY 2 – November 15, 2011 | ||||
| 08:00+ am | Registrations and welcome of participants | |||
| 09:00 – 09:30 am | Keynote address Next generation Broadband Infrastructure – Harnessing the unique power of broadband access to the internet in order to unleash the full potential of individuals and communities everywhere |
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| 09:30 – 11:00 am | Morning Thematic Sessions – PART I Roundtable discussions or Presentations sessions (depending on chairs’ option) Chairs and rapporteurs are requested to issue recommendations for future orientations of collaborative work on ICT between the 2 regions |
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| Track 1 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 2 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 3 THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT |
Track 4 DEPLOYMENT AND MARKETS |
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| Session 1a | Session 2a | Session 3a | Session 4a | |
| TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING
e-Learning (ICT for Education) & e-Skills |
RESEARCH AND EDUCATION NETWORKING | JOINT ICT RESEARCH PRIORITIES | ICT DEPLOYMENT IN AFRICA | |
| How to provide socio-tecnhical innovations – also improving efficiency & cost effectiveness – for learning practices, regarding individuals & organizations, independent of time, place & pace? | From research networking to global virtual research collaboration | Identifying and mapping joint ICT research priorities | Challenges to be overcome to deploy ICT – ICT4D – in Africa | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 am | Coffee & tea break | |||
| 11:30 am – 01:00 pm | Morning Thematic Sessions – PART II Roundtable discussions or Presentations sessions (depending on chairs’ option) Chairs and rapporteurs are requested to issue recommendations for future orientations of collaborative work on ICT between the 2 regions |
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| Track 1 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 2 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 3 THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT |
Track 4 DEPLOYMENT AND MARKETS |
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| Session 1b | Session 2b | Session 3b | Session 4b | |
| ICT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY & ENERGY EFFICIENCY
(e-Agriculture, e-Food, e-Environment) |
MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES & MOBILE APPLICATIONS | CONNECTING THE EU & AFRICA FOR COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH | TAKING RDI RESULTS TO THE MARKET | |
| How to address environmental challenges in Africa using ICTs? | How mobile application developers tackle Africa’s biggest problems? | How supporting and strengthening Euro-African S&T cooperation? | How the ecosystem can take Research, Development and Innovation to the market? | |
| 01:00 – 02:00 pm | Networking buffet lunch | |||
| 02:00 – 03:30 pm | Afternoon Thematic Sessions – PART I Roundtable discussions or Presentations sessions (depending on chairs’ option) Chairs and rapporteurs are requested to issue recommendations for future orientations of collaborative work on ICT between the 2 regions |
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| Track 1 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 2 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 3 THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT |
SESSION 5 THE REGULATORY ENVIRONMENT |
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| Session 1c | Session 2c | Session 3c | Session 5 | |
| ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY TO IMPROVE HEALTH
(e-Health) |
IPV6 & FUTURE INTERNET | EUROPEAN & AFRICAN MECHANISMS FOR FUNDING COLLABORATIVE ICT RESEARCH | SUPPORT ACTIONS IN THE REGULATORY FIELD | |
| Which advanced technologies to lower health care costs and improve quality of life? | Internet broadband access empowered by IPv6 as a two-way internet. How the Internet can transform the way we consume and interact with the media? | Research grant mechanism types, and programs representing collaborative, cross-disciplinary and team-based funding opportunities | Towards regional integration & the adoption of regulatory framework to foster ICT growth & convergence / Status & Perspectives | |
| 03:30 – 04:00 pm | Coffee & tea break | |||
| 04:00 – 05:30 pm | Afternoon Thematic Sessions – PART II Roundtable discussions or Presentations sessions (depending on chairs’ option) Chairs and rapporteurs are requested to issue recommendations for future orientations of collaborative work on ICT between the 2 regions |
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| Track 1 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 2 ICT RESEARCH THEMES |
Track 3 THE ENABLING ENVIRONMENT |
SESSION 6 TRAINING |
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| Session 1d | Session 2d | Session 3d | Session 6 | |
| BUILDING INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION ON TRUSTWORTHY ICT | SOCIAL NETWORKING | BUILDING & STRENGTHENING CAPACITIES IN ICT RESEARCH IN AFRICA | TRAINING FOR FP7 NEWCOMERS | |
| Secure services to citizens – eGovernance – but also privacy, awareness, design for security, cyber crime, critical information, infrastructure protection, etc. | Social networking hubs to boost ICT innovation in Africa | Reinforcing research capacity in Africa: trends, breaches and opportunities | From proposal preparation to successful project management | |
| 05:30 – 05:55 pm | Closing Session & Concluding Addresses |
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| 05:55 – 06:00 pm | Vote of thanks |
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| 06:00 pm | End of the 4th Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research | |||
