Category archive for ‘Events’

• Jul

  2010

  27

  COMARCI In-Country Workshops – Ghana (0)

  

  [ August 9, 2010 to August 13, 2010] The Commonwealth African Rural Connectivity Initiative (COMARCI) of the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) aims to improve African rural communities’ access to ICT and education, health, jobs and agricultural information by facilitating sustainable and innovative solutions for ICT access.

   
• Jul

  2010

  12

  5th Annual Connecting Rural Communities Africa 2010 Forum (0)

  

  [ August 17, 2010 to August 19, 2010] Under the theme “Connecting rural Africa on a cost-effective, sustainable and profitable basis through Public Private Partnerships”, the conference will cover key topics in the following areas:

   
• Jun

  2010

  14

  UbuntuNet Connect 2010 – Call for Papers (0)

  

  [ November 18, 2010 to November 19, 2010] This year’s conference, entitled “Rolling out the Regional Infrastructure: from dreams to achievement ” (infrastructures, applications, content, innovation, policy) is taking place at the Kopanong Resort and Conference Centre in Johannesburg (South Africa) on November 18-19, 2010.

   
• Jun

  2010

  8

  4th International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Africa and Capacity Building (Training) Workshop (0)

  

  [ October 5, 2010 to October 9, 2010] The Conference, organised by the Unesco Bamako Cluster Office, will be held in Bamako (Mali) on October 5-7, 2010.

  The main objectives of the Conference are to: 1/. review efforts at improving quality of delivery of higher education in Africa between 2000 and 2009; 2/. propose an agenda for action for meeting the challenges to quality assurance in higher education in Africa at the individual, institutional, national, sub-regional and regional levels in the new decade; 3/. stimulate the setting up of projects and programmes aiming at improving quality assurance practices in the region; 4/. seek partnerships in implementing the higher education quality assurance agenda.

   
• May

  2010

  28

  3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research (0)

  

  [ December 7, 2010 to December 8, 2010] The “3rd Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research” aims at promoting and enhance ICT research cooperation between Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa. The Conference will be filled with discussions and debates, networking opportunities and knowledge-sharing among key stakeholders in the field and policymakers coming from all over Europe and Africa.

   
• May

  2010

  11

  JEG8 Meeting (EuroAfrica-ICT & eI-Africa participation) (0)

  

  [ May 18, 2010 ] The meeting of the Joint Expert Group for the 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership for Science, Information Society and Space (JEG8) follows on from the previous JEG8 meeting hosted in Cairo (Egypt) on March 5-6, 2010 by the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research in association with the African Ministerial Conference for Science and Technology.

   
• May

  2010

  11

  CAAST-Net General Assembly (EuroAfrica-ICT & eI-Africa participation) (0)

  

  [ May 16, 2010 to May 18, 2010] The event is co-organised by the Africa Unit at the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU), the South Africa’s Department of Science and Technology (DST), with Research Africa as the Official Media partner.

   
• May

  2010

  10

  2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures – Publication of the new leaflet! (0)

  

  [ December 6, 2010 to December 10, 2010] The EuroAfrica-ICT & eI-Africa Partnerships are very pleased to announce that the “2010 Euro-Africa Week on ICT Research & e-Infrastructures” new brochure has just been released.

   
• May

  2010

  10

  2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference (1)

  

  [ December 9, 2010 to December 10, 2010] The “2010 Euro-Africa e-Infrastructures Conference” will address the whole e-Infrastructures programme (from research networking to global virtual research collaboration):

  Innovating the scientific process (global virtual research communities)
  Accessing knowledge (scientific data)

   
• May

  2010

  6

  2nd Science with Africa Conference (0)

  

  [ June 23, 2010 to June 25, 2010] The conference will address innovative policy tools and measures to build the necessary human capital, STI infrastructure, financial instruments, strategies targeting under represented groups and international collaboration. The event will focus on the following themes: Science, technology and innovation policies | Energy, water, transport and infrastructure | Agriculture, health and life science | Climate change in Africa | Intellectual property rights ant technology transfer | Information and communication technologies | Innovation and entrepreneurial capacities | STI capacity building.