Building Africa's information highway

Abstract

Resolution 795, "Building African's Information Highway", of the thirtieth session of the ECA Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning, held in Addis Ababa in May 1995, requested the Executive Secretary to set up a high-level working group on information and communication technologies in Africa, made up of African technical experts, to prepare a plan of action in this field for presentation to the thirty-first session of the Conference of Ministers. To accomplish this, funds have been mobilized, the group has been constituted (a list of its members appears in Annex I), and has worked, both in meetings in Cairo, Dakar and Addis Ababa, and electronically, through a listserv1. The current document, a draft of the plan, is being submitted to this Conference for peer review. Based oh the comments of the Conference, the plan will be revised for presentation to the Ministers.