[wsfii-discuss] WSFII Africa - ICT Conference

Mon Nov 20 13:31:52 UTC 2006

The following arrived from science and development net 
(http://www.scidev.net/)  this morning and I thought it might be of 
interest to some of you.  The list of program committee members is quite 
extensive w/some very interesting organizations and some on that list 
could possibly assist with Ghana.
__________________________________

Information Society Technologies in Africa 2007 
(http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2007/default.asp?page=welcome)
List of committee members: 
http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2007/default.asp?page=committees

Location: Maputo, Mozambique
Date: 9 - 11 May 2007
Organised by: Information Society Technologies in Africa

Deadline for abstracts: 22 December 2006
Early bird registration: 12 March 2007

Description
This is the second annual conference bringing together representatives 
from leading commercial, government and research organisations across 
Africa and Europe, to bridge the digital divide by sharing knowledge, 
experience, lessons learnt and good practice. Core thematic priorities 
for the conference are:

    * ehealth - services to citizens, personalised healthcare;
    * technology enhanced learning and information and communication 
technology (ICT) skills;
    * open source software - applications;
    * ict for einclusion and eaccessibility - case studies and policy 
issues;
    * einfrastructures - issues, applications and technologies;
    * ICT for environmental risk management;
    * networked enterprise - future forms of organisations and 
applications; and
    * egovernment & edemocracy - services to citizens and business.

Registration information
Fees for early bird registration:
African states, euro 200
EU new member states, EU candidate countries and developing countries, 
euro 300
All countries except African states, EU new member states, candidate 
countries and developing countries, euro 350

Online registration will commence at the end of January 2007

Contact details
Conference Secretariat, IIMC, 13 Docklands Innovation Park, 128 East 
Wall Road, Dublin 3, Ireland. Tel: +353 1 8170607 Fax: +353 1 8170606 
Email: secretariat at IST-Africa.org.