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Scan-ICT Phase II: indicators of information and communications technologies: executive summary
(2009-03)
The Scan-ICT programme was launched in November 2000 as a collaborative project between the Acacia programme of the International Development Research Centre and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), ...
Legal and regulatory framworks for the knowledge economy : concept paper
(2009-03)
In this context, this concept paper will analyze the development of e-commerce legal and regulatory frameworks which is an essential element in creation of an enabling environment for the knowledge economy. The paper focuses ...
Scientific development, innovation and the knowledge economy: premise for development in Africa?
(2009-04)
This model assumes that industrialization will be the main driver of growth. Consequently , development is measured essentially by levels of production and consumption, using indicators such as gross domestic product (GDP) ...
Report on ECA activities in the area of science and technology since the fifth session of the Committee on Development Information
(2009-03)
This report covers the activities undertaken since the Science and Technology Section was moved to the Information and Communication Technology, Science and Technology Division after the repositioning of the United Nations ...
Repositioning the African Institute of Economic Development and Planning for the challenges of the twenty first century
(2009-05)
In response to resolution 858 (XLI) adopted by the forty-first session of the Economic Commission for Africa in April 2008, the Executive Secretary of the Commission took steps towards alleviating the immediate financial ...
Rapport d'examen africain sur les produits chimiques : résumé
(2009-10)
La résolution 58/218 de l'Assemblée générale des Nations Unies donne mandat aux commissions régionales des Nations Unies, en collaboration avec le secrétariat de la Commission des Nations Unies sur le développement durable ...
Report on ECA activities in the area of geoinformation since the fifth session of the Committee on Development Information (CODI-V)
(2009-01)
The Secretariat of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is pleased to submit its report on activities carried out by ECA in the area of Geoinformation since the fifth meeting of the Committee on Development Information ...
Third meeting of the Fifth African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) on the African Information Society Initiative (AISI) : meeting report
(2009-04)
This document is a meeting report on The Third meeting of the Fifth African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC) on the African Information Society Initiative (AISI), taken place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 28 April – ...
Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (SAICM)
(2009-08)
The consumption of chemicals by all industries and modern society’s reliance on chemicals for virtually all manufacturing processes make chemicals production one of the major and most globalized sectors of the world economy. ...