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SUMMARY:The 7th EuroAfrica-ICT Awareness Workshop
LOCATION:Lagos\, Nigeria
URL:http://www.euroafrica-ict.org/awareness_workshops.html
DESCRIPTION:The 7th EuroAfrica-ICT awareness workshop will be held at the U
 niversity of Lagos\, Nigeria on February 20 & 21\, 2008. It is organized by
  the Panos Institute West Africa ( PIWA)\, part of the EuroAfrica-ICT conso
 rtium. This two-day event will draw among 70 local and West African (Ghana\
 , Senegal\, Sierra Leone) delegates representing universities\, Information
  and Communications Technology (ICT) companies\, public institutions\, Non 
 Governmental Organizations\, the European Commission and international and 
 regional organizations dealing with ICT. This workshop will be co-prepared 
 by PIWA and its locals partners: the Centre for Information Technology and 
 Systems of the University of Lagos and the National Centre for Technology M
 anagement - NACETEM. This event is up to be supported by the Lagos State Go
 vernment as Special Guest of Honor. This awareness workshop will more speci
 fically aim at: (1) Introducing the objectives and activities of the EuroAf
 rica-ICT/START initiative\; (2) Meeting the most advanced local organisatio
 ns\; (3) Creating awareness and sharing the objectives of the European Unio
 n's Framework Programme (FP7) and the IST Programme\; (4) Discussing themat
 ic issues depending on local needs. This last goal will be a key point of t
 his workshop. The importance of R&D and ICT in West Africa will be emphasiz
 ed by representatives of the Nigeria Computer Society\, Centre for Informat
 ion Technology and Systems – University of Lagos\, PINET informatics\, DevN
 et Nigeria\, AITI-KACE. Global constraints and opportunities\, as well as t
 he private sector and the civil society's points of view will be outlined. 
 Stakeholders will also give more details about status and perspectives of t
 he EU-Sub-Saharan S&T/ICT cooperation through presentations of the Informat
 ion Technology Industry Association of Nigeria (ITAN)\, the Kwame Nkrumah U
 niversity of Science & Technology (KNUST)\, the Delegation of the European 
 Commission in Nigeria (TBC) and the Economic Commission of West African Sta
 tes (ECOWAS). The Seventh Framework Programme for Research and Technologica
 l Development (FP7) (ICT Theme) will be introduced to participants (includi
 ng the conditions for participation\, evaluation criteria and processes) in
  order to increase the participation of African organisations in FP7. Ongoi
 ng initiatives on e-learning\, ICT for Health\, ICT access will afterwards 
 be exposed to show that valuable R&D capacities and projects have been deve
 loped in African countries upon which EU-African S&T partnerships can build
 . The workshop will end up with a lab visit to give a concrete example and 
 learn about recent breakthrough or process developed in Nigeria in the R&D 
 on ICT field. Several breaks\, debates and thematic group discussions will 
 offer valuable networking opportunities to interested parties seeking partn
 erships and broadening scientific researches' horizon.\n\nMore: https://nsr
 c.org/calendar/helpfiles/workshop_info_main.php?id=338
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