Coordination Meeting on the African Information Society Initiative: Welcome and opening remarks by K. Y. Amoako, executive secretary, ECA

This welcome and opening remarks delivered by K. Y. Amoako, Executive Secretary, ECA at he Coordination Meeting on the African Information Society Initiative. Dr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, Objectives of the meeting is to obtain a consensus of the partners in the AISI on objectives and priorities for action and to draw up an implementation plan. Common commitment to using tools of information technology to stimulate African social and economic development Belief that the Information Age is one that Africa cannot afford to pass on Belief that the partners assembled here can work with African governments to make this vision into national plans, programmes and projects. It is important for all attending to know the present and planned activities of the cooperating agencies, in order to work towards coordination and to avoid overlap of activities in a time of resource scarcity.

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Format: Speech biblioteca
Language:eng
Published: 1996-10
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10855/47499
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