Civil society, ICTs & governance in Africa Discussion Forum: October 1-30, 2002.In collaboration with the Association of Progressive Communication (APC (1) (American Power Conversion Corporation, West Kingston, RI, www.apcc.com) The leading manufacturer of UPS systems and surge suppressors, founded in 1981 by Rodger Dowdell, Neil Rasmussen and Emanual Landsman, three electronic power engineers who had worked at MIT. ), UNECA UNECA United Nations Economic Commission for Africa is holding a discussion forum on the role of civil society in promoting the use of ICTs to strengthen and stimulate participatory approaches to governance in Africa. It is expected that the discussions will feed into forthcoming events being planned by the APC as well as the U NECA NECA National Electrical Contractors Association NECA National Exchange Carrier Association NECA National Electrical and Communications Association (Australia) NECA National Electricity Code Administrator (Australia) such as the conference on civil society and ICTs in Africa (November 2002); the Committee on Development Information (CODI/2003); and the African Development Forum (ADF (1) (Application Development Facility) An IBM programmer-oriented mainframe application generator that runs under IMS. (2) (Automatic Document Feeder) A paper stacker that feeds one sheet of paper at a time into the unit. ). The discussions will also form the basis for articulating civil society views in the World Summit on the Information Society The World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) was a pair of United Nations-sponsored conferences about information, communication and, in broad terms, the information society that took place in 2003 in Geneva and in 2005 in Tunis. (WSIS) in 2003 and 2005. Contact: Aide Opoku-Mensah E.mail: aopoku-mensah@uneca.org Forum de discussion sur le theme : la Societe Civile, les TIC & la Gouvernance en Afrique: du 1er au 30 Octobre, 2002 En collaboration avec l'Association pour les Communications Participatives, UNECA conduit un forum de discussion sur le r61e de la societe civile dans la promotion de l'utilisation des TIC pour renforcer et stimuler les approches participatives relatives a la gouvernance en Afrique. Il est prevu que les discussions permettent l'enrichissement d'evenements en voie de planification par APC et UNECA tels que la conference sur la Societe Civile et les TICs en Afrique (Novembre 2002), le Comite sur le Developpement de l'Information (CODI/ 2003) et le Forum de DevMoppement Africain (ADF) Les discussions constitueront aussi la base des opinions de le societe civile qui seront communiquees au Sommet Mondial Mondial can refer to:
Contact: Aida Opeku-Mensah E-mail: aopoku-mensah@uneca.org |
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