50yrs: AU partner EU on Internet/ICT Week’13

The 2013 Africa Union (AU) and European Union (EU) Forum on Internet, Information and Communication (Internet/ICT) has been concluded to take place between December 2 and 6, 2013 at the African Union Conference Centre (AUCC) and Office Complex in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

The event is organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 EU/FP7 in the framework of the AUC Internet/ICT Week holding in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) which later rebranded to African Union (AU).

The ‘2013 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on Internet/ICT’ is the sixth of a series organised by the EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative under the aegis of the European Commission (EC, DG CONNECT) and the African Union Commissions (AUC, Information Society Division) and in the framework of the Joint Africa-EU Strategic Partnership (JAES).

The African Union (AU) on September 9,1999, came as a pronouncement of the Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity issued a Declaration calling for the establishment of an African Union, with a view, to accelerate the process of integration in the continent to enable it play its rightful role in the global economy, while addressing multifaceted social, economic and political problems compounded as they are by certain negative aspects of globalisation.

NIRA would be represented by the Board Committee Chairman on Communications, Mr Remmy Nweke, other ICT/Internet stakeholders in Nigeria are encouraged to attend.

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