Video-taped Speech by K.Y. Amoako Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to GIIC 1997 Annual Meeting Cologne, Germany 28 October 1997

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Video-taped Speech by K.Y. Amoako Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa to GIIC 1997 Annual Meeting. "It is indeed a pleasure and a privilege to address this annual meeting of the Global Information Infrastructure Commission (GIIC). We are happy to have worked with the GIIC almost since its inception, with its Africa Region programme and Commissioners. Your Africa Commissioner Dr. Hisham el Sheriff brilliantly chaired our High Level Working Group which produced the African Information Society Initiative (AISI). Three of your staff as well as Commissioners were also members of the Group. Commissioner Souleymane Sall is a member of the African Technical Advisory Committee for the AISI." he said.