The Lagos Plan of Action noted that: "Africa has the largest concentration of the Least Developed Countries, and is the most backward and disadvantaged in the field of Science and Technology for Development". It also ...

Concerning the potential of satellite broadcasting systems for education and development.The magnitude of investment required for any satellite system necessitates for most developing countries a multinational or regional ...

This paper is a Note for the Secretariat of the Issues for consideration by the conference, of the First meeting of the Conference of Ministers of African Least Developed Countries held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from ...

There is an increasing awareness of the need for the continent to foster the results achieved during UNTACDA I, to speed up implementation of the Decade programmes and to project itself into the 21st century with a renewed ...

This report is on the mid-term evaluation. The first evaluation conducted in 1994, concluded, naturally, that the Decade objectives were indeed relevant, and that there was a need to implement the Decades programme taking ...

The assessment of development of the communications sector was based on indicators established during the preparation and inauguration of the programme. Thus, for each communications sub-sector, we took into account the ...

The objectives of the Centre include the provision of assistance to African Governments in the formulation of technological policies as an integral part of socio and economic development, and the establishment and strengthening ...

The feasibility of the Regional African Satellite Communications Organization (RASCOM) was then executed by the ITU under the auspices of the Inter-Agency Coordinating Committee (IACC) composed of ECA, ADB, AFCAC PATU UNDP ...

Transport and communications are a sector that African States have always considered important for their economic development and the social progress of their people, in general, and for industrial development, trade ...