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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 ...
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 ...
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 – ...
ECA activities in information and communications technologies for development in 2008-2009 : implementation of the recommendations of the fifth session of the committee on development information and work programme for 2010-2011
(2009-03)
This report covers the activities undertaken since the last session of the Committee on Development Information (CODI–V) held in April 2007, which reviewed the work programme for 2007-2008, as well as the implementation ...
Enabling environment for geospatial information technology uptake in Africa
(2009-03)
The Committee on Development Information (CODI) strove to provide an enabling environment for sustainable development through the work of its subcommittees on information and communications technology (ICT), knowledge, ...
Report on ECA's activities related to the development of the African Virtual Library Information Network (AVLIN)
(2007-04)
At the fifth session of CODl held in Addis Ababa in April 2005, the AVLIN Advisory Committee (AAC) tasked the AVLIN Secretariat to undertake a study to provide an overview of the readiness of African libraries to participate ...
Status of development information, science and technology in Africa
(2009)
This report presents ECA’s activities in the above three areas in three sections. The first is entitled “Status of development information in Africa” and the second “Status of science and technology for development in ...