The meetings of the Sub-Committee were attended by approximately 80 participants. Delegates came from the following member States: Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, the Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mauritius, Mozambique, ...

ECA has been working to promote this new approach which the ECA Conference of Ministers adopted in 1996 as the African Information Society Initiative: an action framework to build African's information and communication ...

Within the past two decades, Africa has reached a milestone in transitioning from an Area of Interest (AOI) for satellite remote sensing scientists, primarily within the industrialized countries, to a modest base for regular ...

The workshop focused on interventions from experts on the definition of poverty,multidimensional intra-digital divide, gender gaps, quality of education, pro-poor approaches,and the relationship between ICTs and poverty ...

The ECA Secretariat is pleased to submit its report on activities carried out by ECA in the area of geo-information since the third meeting of the Committee on Development Information. The report includes actions taken as ...

Realization of the objectives of a national's socio-economic development programmes depends on availability and speedy access to Geospatial Information (GI) through provision of relevant infrastructures for data acquisition, ...

The Conference of African Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development and Planning adopted Resolution No. 826 (XXXII) in April 1996, through which the Ministers structured new Organs to deal with overall ...

Recognizing the shortcomings of a centralized form of public administration, the government of Ethiopia has embarked on an ambitious plan of decentralization that accords an important role to woredas (districts) in the ...

Sudan is a vast agricultural, pastoral and multicultural country. Its population is about 40 million out of which 75% live in rural areas. Agriculture is the dominant sector in the Sudanese economy. It contributes about ...

Information is intrinsically linked to human beings, groups and society and is the Basis for their capacity to perceive, interpret, understand and transform the world. From the dawn of human society, information has always ...