June 22, 2020
Africa: Online Launch Event - Africa Communication and Information Platform (Acip) for Health and Economic Action
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Africa: ECA and Partners to Launch the Africa Communication and Information Platform in Response to COVID-19
Africa is about to roll out a groundbreaking mobile based public communications platform to provide more than 600 million users across the continent with the latest public health… Read more »
June 15, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 - Science, Technology and Innovation Key to Africa's Recovery, Says Songwe
Science, technology and innovation will be at the heart of Africa's recovery from the devastating coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the continent's ability to create sustainable… Read more »
June 10, 2020
Africa: COVID-19 - Africa in Urgent Need of Affordable Broadband Internet
The director of Technology, Climate Change and Natural Resources Management at the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Jean-Paul Adam, told journalists during a virtual press… Read more »
May 28, 2020
Africa: Now Is the Time for Africa to Digitize Land Registries, Says Joan Kagwanja
The ongoing coronavirus crisis (COVID-19) has added impetus to the need for African nations to create comprehensive, up to date land registries to safeguard ordinary people's land… Read more »
May 15, 2020
Africa: Electronic Trade Rekindling Sales for African Businesses During COVID-19
Imagine using one second to sell three thousand (3000) bags of a coffee produce which lay fallow hitherto in storehouses in Rwanda for months due to freighting stand-stills caused… Read more »
April 23, 2020
Africa: Innovative Tech and Connectivity Key to Fighting COVID-19 in Africa
Dealing with the health and economic challenges of COVID-19 has made one point abundantly clear for African countries - "that we need broadband, faster, cheaper, and expanded to… Read more »
February 25, 2020
Africa: Use Technology to Help Africa Achieve SDGs and Not Sow Hate, UN's Amina Mohammed Implores Youth
Amina Mohammed, the UN Deputy Secretary-General, on Monday, interacted with hundreds of young people from across the African continent at a youth engagement event, where she urged… Read more »
Africa: Use Technology to Help Africa Achieve SDGs and Not Sow Hate, UN's Amina Mohammed Tells Youth
Amina Mohammed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary General, on Monday interacted with hundreds of youth from across the African continent at a youth engagement event where she… Read more »
Africa: Use Technology to Help Africa Achieve SDGs and Not Sow Hate, UN's Amina Mahommed Tells Youth
Amina Mahommed, the United Nations Deputy Secretary General, on Monday interacted with hundreds of youth from across the African continent at a youth engagement event where she… Read more »
December 11, 2019
Africa: "The AfCFTA Must Embrace the Digital Economy" - Eca's Karingi
The Committee on Private Sector, Regional Integration, Trade, Infrastructure, Industry and Technology (CPRTIIT), comprising senior officials and experts from member states, which… Read more »
October 14, 2019
Africa: Africa Urged to Harness Digital Technology for Legal Identity
Advances in technology present Africa with an important opportunity for the digitalization of its civil registration and vital statistics systems through which the strategic… Read more »
September 28, 2019
Central Africa: Calls for 'Digital Transformations Here and Now' in the Air
No more talking shops, no more feet-dragging! Now is the time to invest line-hook-and-sinker in the tools of digital transformations, as levers of Central Africa's economic… Read more »
September 24, 2019
Central Africa: Hatching Out Digital Economy 4.0 Framework for Central Africa
Major building blocks to catalyse the entry of Central African countries into the fourth industrial revolution, induced by digital transformations, have been laid at an… Read more »
September 23, 2019
Africa: Central African States Urged to Be More Productive in the Digital Economy
"We produce raw materials here in Central Africa, which are being used to boost the digital economy at the global level," said Equatorial Guinea's Minister of Finance, Economy and… Read more »
September 06, 2019
Africa: Harnessing the Power of Digital Revolution for Urban Sustainability and Prosperity
As one of the most important global congresses on urban agenda, sustainable cities and human settlements, as well as an observance of Urban October, GFHS 2019 was successfully held… Read more »
July 02, 2019
Africa: ECA's 2020 Conference of Ministers to Focus On Industrialisation in the Digital Era
The fifty-third session of the Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) will be held in Addis Ababa… Read more »
July 01, 2019
Africa: Technology Set to Improve Data Quality, Timeliness & Dissemination of Census Results, Says Chinganya
A five-day experts group meeting on supporting electronic data collection and dissemination in censuses-making opened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Monday with Economic Commission for… Read more »
June 26, 2019
Central Africa: A Rendezvous On Central Africa's Digital Economy in Malabo
The Government of Equatorial Guinea and the Subregional Office for Central Africa of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) are convening the 35th Session of the… Read more »
April 11, 2019
Africa: ECA and South Africa to Host Forum On Technologies to Support SDGs Implementation
The South African Department of Science and Technology teams-up with the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) next week to host an STI on technologies for the implementation of the… Read more »
April 02, 2019
Africa: Lecture Delivered By Dr Omobola Johnson - Digital Transformation of Africa - Hype or Reality?
UNITED NATIONS ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA Read more »
March 23, 2019
Africa: The Digital Transformation As a Tool for Inclusive Trade-Led Industrialisation in Africa
A side event themed, Digital Trade in Africa: Implications for Inclusion and Industrialisation took place this Saturday in Marrakech, Morocco. The event had four panellists from… Read more »
March 26, 2019
Africa: Com2019 Ends With African Governments Being Urged to Embrace Digital Transformation
The 52nd session of the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (COM2019) ended here on Tuesday with… Read more »
March 25, 2019
Africa: Digital Transformation of Africa - Hype or Reality?
The 2019 Annual Adebayo Adedeji Lecture on the theme, "Digital Transformation of Africa: Hype or Reality", was delivered by Dr. Omobola Johnson, Former Minister of Communication… Read more »
March 20, 2019
Africa: Experts Tease Out Kingpin Role of Digitization for Africa's Revenue Harvest
Digitization has been variously described as pivotal in ramping-up revenue collection for financing Africa's development. Read more »