Presented by Dawit Isayas

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Presented byDawit Isayas Information Systems
Officer Information Technology Center for
Africa United Nations Economic Commission for
Africa
WSIS Follow-up
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• ECA launched the Information Technology Center
  for Africa in 1996 in order to showcase
  technology for development and promote Awareness
  and Capacity Building ECA through Training.
• Partnering with CISCO, USAID, the governments of
  Canada, Finland, Japan and others, ITCA has
  organized a number of training activities for
  women, policymakers, ministers and others.

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• Internet Awareness
• ICT and the Media,
• HIV/AIDS sensitization and others.
• CISCO's Certified Network Administrators Program
  for women.

• In the process, we graduated more than 40 women
  from Anglophone and Francophone countries, some
  of the first women CISCO engineers in Africa as
  well as over 400 policymakers and others from
  numerous African countries

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• Constraints
• Heavy financial burdens
• Limited outreach potential
• Limited ability to democratize access
• Limited ability to measure impact

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• Expected Goals
• Ability to engage stakeholders locally we can
  now offer training to stakeholders without having
  them leave their home areas
• Reduce financial burdens Access to our modules
  online results in reduced training costs and
  allows us to efficiently utilize funding to
  explore and develop additional training material.
  
• Develop dynamic and contextualized training
  modules for Africas development Through our
  aggressive partnership campaign, we want to
  relativize innovative ICTs to address African
  development needs.
• Democratizing Access Our main goal is to
  democratize access to knowledge resources, i.e.,
  get training and knowledge to the people who need
  it the most. We believe we can turn Brain Drain
  into Brain Gain and move from a Digital
  Divide toward Digital Inclusion.

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• Integration of ECA resources
• Partnering with like-minded organizations
• Continue to develop Portals for the advancement
  and display of technology in the Africa region

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