[wsfii-discuss] WSFII Africa - ICT Conference

[Jeff Buderer]

Tracey,

Thanks I will check into those links.

I am wondering about any ideas you or other her might might have for 
developing a GIS program that is open content/open data based that would 
fit with our plan to roll out Open Digital Villages starting with 
Winneba Ghana in early 07.

We have long wanted to include GIS in the development these ICT centres, 
so this might be an opportunity to practically consider the appropriate 
process and technologies should be considered in such a plan.

We also might want to set up a wiki space (somewhere in the WSFII wiki 
universe) specifically to discuss and put together a plan for this.

Jeff

 P. Lauriault wrote:

> 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.
>
>
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