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Faire appel aux associations nationales d’inventeurs pour accélérer l’innovation et l’adoption de technologies en Afrique
(2014)
La présente note d’orientation propose de collaborer avec les associations nationales d’inventeurs pour accélérer l’innovation et
l’adoption des technologies dans le secteur manufacturier et le secteur des services des ...
Renforcer les capacités dans le domaine du génie biomédical afin d’améliorer les résultats des soins de santé en Afrique
(2014)
La présente note d’orientation contient trois recommandations de mesures qui pourraient servir à inciter les universités à développer leurs compétences en génie biomédical, leur esprit d’entreprise et leur capacité ...
Enhancing Africa's competitiveness: policy issues in natural resources and science and technology
(2001-09)
The paper discusses the concept of competitiveness and how the concept has evolved over time. This analysis is useful to understand and assess the current state of competitiveness in Africa and how competitiveness can be ...
Skills, technology and the African transformation agenda: massive open online courses to the rescue?
(2018)
One of the major developments of the early twenty-first century, largely not fully characterized and understood, was the rapid pace and sustained rate of growth in a majority of African economies, oil and non-oil economies ...
Democratizing access to the Information Society
(1999)
The information revolution is calling for new imperatives in the way m which people throughout the world mobilize and utilize communication resources.This paper assesses the issues surrounding the democratization of access ...
Policy brief
(1998-05)
This Policy Brief is intended to serve as a medium through which the Food Security and Sustainable Development Division of the ECA can sensitize policy-makers, development planners and stakeholders on the African continent ...
Promoting financial technology startups in Africa
(2018)
Finance is identified as a means of implementation of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the Outcomes of Rio+20; and the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. It is also identified by the African Union ...
Tackling the challenges of cybersecurity in Africa
(2014)
Africa is facing several Internet-related challenges in relation to security risk, intellectual property infringement and protection of personal data. Cyber-criminals target people inside and outside their national boundaries ...
Promoting FinTech start-ups in Africa
(2018)
FinTech is an industry composed of companies that use new technology and innovation with available resources to compete in the marketplace of traditional financial institutions and intermediaries, in the delivery of financial ...
Regional review meeting on “WSIS+10 and beyond: outcomes and perspectives for Africa”: recommendations for policy makers
(2015-04)
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organized an Africa regional ten-year review of the implementation of the outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS+10) on the theme “WSIS+10 and ...