One of the main objectives of the EuroAfrica-ICT project is to identify ICT policy and research priorities addressing cooperation between Europe and (sub-Saharan) Africa.

Once identified and analysed in detail, these priorities will lead to recommendations which may be taken into consideration in facilitating the rapid emergence of Euro-African collaborative projects addressing identified ICT research areas.

To identify these ICT policy and research priorities, the EuroAfrica-ICT Partnership will take a wide range of sources into consideration: existing project outputs over the period 2006-2010; the priorities and recommendations of existing action plans (eg, NEPAD CPA, ARAPKE, EU/FP7, etc.); inputs from expert panels and key stakeholders in the field (member states, private sector, academia, civil society, media, international organisations, NGOs, etc.); and extensive consultation of participants in EuroAfrica-ICT activities (cooperation forum attendees, FP7/ICT awareness workshop delegates, concertation meeting participants, members of the virtual community of experts, newsletter subscribers, etc.).

The detailed methodology of this work, together with a roadmap will be specified on this website section very soon.

Our preliminary list of identified priority research topics includes:

• e-Learning, ICT for Education / e-Skills (Technology Enhanced Learning)
• e-Health, ICT for Health (Advanced Technology to Improve Health)
• e-Governance (Secure Services to Citizens & Business / Including ICT policies and regulation)
• e-Infrastructures & GÉANT (From research networking to global virtual research collaboration. Infrastructures & Access)
• e-Libraries / Digital Library Services & Digital Content Infrastructures
• e-Inclusion (and e-Adoption) & e-Accessibility (ICT for independent living)
• e-Agriculture, ICT for Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency (Enabling Environment, Climate Change Effects, Disaster Management, etc.)
• Evolution and convergence of networks, infrastructures, equipment and services towards Future Network solutions
• Social inclusion, youth/women and the Information Society
• Software and services (in various sectors: enterprise, agriculture, etc.)
• Transport and technology

(specific attention will be brought to mobile telephony — the use and applications of mobile technologies in the above identified thematic areas)