African Stakeholders Network Meeting: Address by K.Y.Amoako executive secretary economic commission for Africa
Address byK.Y.Amoako Executive Secretary Economic Commission for Africa at the African Stakeholders Network Meeting. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, the creation of the Task Force is based on the UN's commitment to building digital opportunities globally, especially with respect to deploying or using ICTs in the implementation of the Millennium Development Goals. It also builds on global initiatives such as the G8 Dot Force and other processes such as the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). In Africa, particularly important is the NEPAD continental framework where ICTs have been identified as one of the key programme areas to be addressed. This Network was created to assist the Task Force in an important task, at a critical time in the development of an information society in Africa. He added that this event is preceding the Committee on Development Information (CODI) meeting, which is one of seven technical committees established by the ECA Conference of Ministers to provide guidance to the Commission. CODI deals specifically with development information, including ICTs, statistics, libraries and geo-information, and generally ensures ECA's effective implementation of AISI.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2003-05
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47228 |
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