Africa: Are African Concerns Adequately Reflected In The Outcomes Document?

African Delegates Voice Their Opinions - "Issues of concerns to African women like education, the girl-child, AIDS are of course adequately mentioned. The problem is that we are… Read more »

Africa: The Spirit Of Beijing Is Alive And Well

The Ist Plenary Meeting of the Twenty-third Special Session of the General Assembly, entitled "Women 2000: Gender Equality, Development and Peace for the Twenty-first Century",… Read more »

Africa: New Report Assesses Progress In Microcredit Programmes

A report released today by the Microcredit Summit Campaign, surveying 1, 065 microcredit institutions, has found that as at 31 December 1999, these programmes had reached 13.8… Read more »

Africa: Africa Fields Strong Presence At Beijing

- Five years after the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, some 10,000 representatives of governments, the United Nations system, intergovernmental and non- governmental… Read more »

Africa: ECA Launches New CD-Rom On Status Of Africa's Women

- ECA's African Centre for Women (ACW) today officially launched the first edition of 'The Status of Women in Africa' a new CD-ROM containing comprehensive gender-disaggregated… Read more »

Africa: Enhancing India-Africa Cooperation in the Information Age

The following is Full Text Of An Address Delivered By Mr. K.Y. Amoako, UN Under Secretary General And Executive Secretary Of The Economic Commission For Africa (Eca)On Tuesday 11… Read more »

Africa: ECA 2000 Recruitment Campaign

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the regional arm of the United Nations in Africa, is a vibrant and dynamic organization with a mission to meet… Read more »

Africa: Claiming the 21st Century: Africa's Agenda By Dr. K. Y.

On 1 January, the dawn of the new millennium, worldwide images of jubilation flashed across our television screens. One ceremony stood out for its sheer simplicity. In the cell… Read more »

Africa: Can Africa's Brain Drain Be Stemmed?

Leading development and capacity building experts from Africa and beyond will attend a major regional conference here next week, to assess the impact of the brain drain on Africa's… Read more »

Africa: International Policies, African Realities

This is to invite your participation in "International Policies, African Realities", an electronic roundtable co-sponsored by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa… Read more »

Africa: Plans Unveiled To Speed Implementation Of Dakar/ Beijing Platforms

The Sixth African Regional Conference on Women ended here today with a Regional Plan of Action which maps out priorities and strategies for the next five years to accelerate the… Read more »

Africa: Gender Experts To Review Africa's Progress Since Beijing

Some 1,500 participants drawn from senior levels of governments, civil society, regional institutions, bilateral agencies, agencies of the United Nations, and multilateral partners… Read more »

Africa: Meetings organized by ECA in the month of November 1999

1-2 November - Meeting of Partners in Information and Communication Technology for Africa (PICTA). Focal Division: Development Information Services Division (DISD). Contact: Ms.… Read more »

Africa: ADF Summary - Feedback on Youth Focus Group

Chaired by Heba Ramzy of RITSEC, Egypt, the youth group identified a number of concerns they shared as the future working population and leaders in Africa. Acknowledging that ICTs… Read more »

Africa: Indicators for the information economy and their relevance to Africa

In this breakout group session, Heather Hudson from the Acacia Program, IDRC, Canada, and Peter Benjamin of the University of Witwatersland, made presentations. Read more »

Africa: Breakout sessions on Democratizing Access

A breakout session within the framework of democratizing access to the information age focused on community applications. Various models of community-based multipurpose centers… Read more »

Africa: Breakout sessions on Governance

The main objective of the sessions was to reexamine current issues facing African countries in adapting ICTs to enhance the process through which institutions, businesses and… Read more »

Africa: Workshop on introducing electronic commerce to small business

Mr. Jacques Rostenne of Perwit, Canada facilitated this workshop, stimulating participants with his challenge of finding practical ways to use the web to make money, beyond the… Read more »

Africa: ADF Ends With Concrete Initiatives On The Table

The following are concrete partnership initiatives that emerged in the course of the first African Development Forum, which ended today. Some 750 representatives of governments,… Read more »

Africa: Breakout sessions on Infrastructure

The sessions discussed policy and regulation, financing infrastructure development and capacity building and human resource development, Internet governance and new mechanisms for… Read more »

Africa: Breakout sessions on Information Economy

The sessions noted the need to discuss and debate what globalization can offer, and that Africans need to be part of the globalization process. The importance of analyzing policies… Read more »

Africa: Summary of Address by President Alpha Oumar Konare to the ADF

Introduced to the Forum by Mr. K.Y Amoako, Executive Secretary of the ECA, and briefed on the previous day's activities and recommendations by H.E. Dr. James Jonah, Minister of… Read more »

Africa: Indicators for the information economy and their relevance to

In this breakout group session, Heather Hudson from the Acacia Program, IDRC, Canada, and Peter Benjamin of the University of Witwatersland, made presentations. Read more »

Africa: The Response from Donors

The donor community present at the ADF showed a tremendous amount of good will and promised continued support for ICT related projects and programmes, based on various discussions… Read more »

Africa: ICTs and the Media

16:30 - 18:00 hrs Tuesday 26 October 1999 - Objective: A panel of experts examined how media integration with ICTs can promote a more diverse and pluralist media environment and… Read more »