The African Information Society Initiative AISI

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The African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
Stakeholders Networking and Partnerships June 6-7
2005 Banjul, Gambia
Thierry H. AMOUSSOUGBORegional Adviser, DISD/ECA
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PARTNERSHIP AND NETWORKING

Multi-stakeholder networking and partnerships
have been widely accepted as a means towards more
effective and impactful development in Africa,
and are central to ECAs vision for an African
renaissance, ECA
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MULTI- STAKEHOLDERS PARTNERSHIP

• To give the opportunity to engage in a dialogue
  that assists in the development of an inclusive
  information society
• To aggregate resources, share risks, cost and
  benefit, to ensure an inclusive information
  society
• To ensure people-centered information society

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STAKEHOLDERS METWORKING

• To enhance knowledge on e-strategies at national,
  sub-regional levels
• To increase their effective participations in
  addressing e- strategies
• To help trust, responsibility and adequate
  participatory mechanisms
• To promote ICT sub-regional cooperation and best
  practices transfer

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Stakeholders Roles in IS

• To coordinate the formulation and implementation
  of e-strategies
• To create legislative and regulatory environment
  conducive for ICT development and MSP

Gov

• To stimulate debate on e-strategies spread
  awareness on benefits of I.S. and MSP
• To provide broad channels of communications to
  the poor and to remote areas

Media

• To Advocate, lobby to ensure ICT opportunities
  for all
• To create an equitable information society, based
  on sustainable economic and social development
• To ensure the social acceptance of the
  information society.

CSO

• To invest in ICT services and infrastructure and
  capacity building
• To promote ICT research and Development through
  partnership with Academia

Private
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Stakeholders Roles in IS (ctd)
Youth

• To mainstream in Policy and strategies voices of
  the majority of the world population and future
  workforce
• To ensure high skill ICT development

MPs

• To promote legislations and policies which would
  extend the benefits of
• ICTs to the community
• To influence policy and strategies by ensuring
  the implementation of
• projects and programme conducive for the
  socio-economic development of
• the Country

Academia

• Provide intellectual leadership for the I.S.
• Provide/develop expertise for countries
• Serve as Incubator for ICT initiatives
• Provide cutting-edge solutions/ Applications/
  Researches

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ECA WORKS IN PROMOTING CSO

• Workshop Forum
• Discussions Lists
• Promotion of CSO participation to WSIS, WGIG
• Promoting of the Global ICT4D ACS Network
• Bureau
• Coordinator Dr. Olivier Nana Nzepa of Cameroun
• Five sub-regional representatives
• Northen of Africa Mustapha Masmoudi, Tunis
• Western of Africa Nadia Biuole, Mali
• Central of Africa Nana Delphine of Cameroun
• Eastern of Africa Leopold Rwyemamu of Tanzania
• Southern of Africa Tracey Naughhton of South
  Africa
• Diaspora pape Diouf
• Support team of Research, DSF, Networking,
  Infrastructure, lobbying

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ECA WORKS IN PROMOTING MSP

• ACS ICT4D
• Advocacy and Lobbying
• To strengthen Africa Civil Society capacity,
  mainstream its causes in e-strategies and various
  fora to foster better social development and
  inclusive African Information Society
• To build and promote national CSO network
  activities

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MPs

• Workshop Forum
• Discussions Lists
• Training of more than 150 Ethiopians MPs at ITCA
• Launching of Tanzania ICT4D MPs Network
• Launching of Niger ICT4D MPs Network

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ACADEMIA

• Africa Learning Network (ALN) ADF99
• SchoolNet Africa National and Regional schools
  Networking (31 Countries-300 schools)
• OOSYNET Out-Of-School-Youth (Imfudo)
• VarsityNet Connectivity-Learning-RD-Localization
  (AAUIUCEA)
• WSIS Academia Research Networks (ARN)
• Visioning Retreat
• Discussion List
• Launch during wsis I in Geneva

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ACADEMIA RESEARCH NETWORK

• ARN1 African languages and content development
  in the cyberspace
• ARN2 Measuring the impact of the African
  Information Society
• ARN3 The Industrialization of ICTs in Africa
• ARN4 Creating Enabling environment in the
  Information society

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ECA WORKS IN PROMOTING MSP

• Media Annual Media Award, ICTs Manual, Study on
  media involved in IS, various workshop, promoting
  their participation to various for a
• Youth Promoting their participation to various
  fora, Youth discussion list, Youth global network
  launched during Accra
• Private sector Workshop, African ICTs
  Innovation task Force launched

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Way Forward

• Main Objective How can we contribute to NICI
  and ICT4D Activities in Gambia?
• Establish a policy Dialogue Framework Put the
  Network, its bureau and Plan of Action
• Implement the Network Plan of Action

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Thank You !
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