This document focuses on Report of the third Meeting of the Committee on Development Information (CODI III). This third meeting addressed specific sectors of development information, including information and communications ...

The Intergovernmental Committee on Science and Technology for Development,established by the United Nations General Assembly to promot and oversee the implementation of the Vienna Programme of Action, in its resolution ...

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) launched the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) in May 1996, which serves as a guiding framework for building the information and communication infrastructure in Africa. ...

The present Session represents a new start for CODI showing the importance of the information issues in the various economic and social activities, becoming consequently a strategic resource for African development and ...

This research was conducted with the aim of studying the qualitative and quantitative aspects for the wide utilization of GIS technology in Ethiopia as the backbone information infrastructure for drought management and ...

This report is preliminary and uses gleanings from the results of three .African survey missions-which took place in 1977 concerning technology transfer and. information and the Library of the Economic .Commission for ...

A nation's ability to fully develop an Information Society depends on the capacity of its people to be educated, to assimilate, and to process complex information. In this context,higher education institutions play a ...

The Scan-ICT project is a multi-donor initiative that seeks to build support for the phased development of a comprehensive African capability to define, collect and manage key information needed to support the growing ...

The sub-committee gave emphasis to the promotion of ICTs in the development of the continent. It also examined in depth ECA’s work programme in information and communication technologies. Participants presented reports on ...

This report reviews the recommendations made during the CODI II meeting in 2001. The progress made and remaining tasks will be highlighted.