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), ...

South Africa, from 19 - 20 February 2009. The main objective of the meeting was to increase understanding of and support for NEPAD as a development framework through wider and deeper journalistic coverage. The regional ...

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 ...

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) ...

The UN Regional Consultation Mechanism (RCM) was established to improve coordination and coherence at the regional level within the context of the UN Secretary- General’s reform agenda. Since 1999 regional consultative ...

The operational and structural rationalization of the General Services Section (GSS) comes at a timely confluence of the UNECA repositioning strategy and the planned implementation of the enterprise resource planning (ERP). ...

The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and South Africa’s University of Witwatersrand are co-organizing the 1st International Conference on African Digital Libraries and Archives. This forum will discuss ...

Lors de la restructuration de la CEA, en 2006, une nouvelle division a été créée pour mettre en oeuvre le sous-programme «Exploitation de l’information aux fins du développement». La division des technologies de l’information ...

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 ...