Monday, November 11, 2013

AU, EU forum on Internet/ICT gathers momentum

DigitalSENSE Business News:

The 2013 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) slated for Addis Ababa, Ethiopia between December 2 and 3, just as the African Union Commission (AUC) Internet/ICT Week holds from 2 through 6 December are gathering momentum.

Sources close to the organizers, the EuroAfrica-P8 Partnership informed DigitalSENSE Business News, disclosed that the event would hold at the African Union Conference Centre in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that the event has been designed for anyone with an interest in Euro-African collaborative projects on ICT and it is organised in the framework of the AUC Internet/ICT Week, which holds between December 2 and 6, 2013 at the AUC Centre.

The forum is part of the celebration for the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) before it’s renaming to African Union (AU).

DigitalSENSE Business News learnt that the forum is aimed at strengthening and supporting the development of cooperation on ICT research and ICT4D between Africa and Europe.


The '2013 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT' is the sixth of a series of very successful conferences 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). 

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