The African Information Society Initiative AISI

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The African Information Society Initiative (AISI)
Stakeholders Networking and Partnerships May
18-19 2006 Kigali, Rwanda
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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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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Effectiveness of a Network

• The effectiveness of a network, both in its
  ability to fulfill its own mandate, and in its
  ability to influence the government policy
  process, is directly linked to its governance
  structures, chosen methods of advocacy and
  credibility.
• Strategies for influencing public policy tend to
  fall under three key categories lobbying, public
  education and advocacy

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Way Forward

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

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