African Information Society Initiative (AISI) meetings

Abstract

The African Information Society Initiative (AISI) will be the focus of two major meetings scheduled to take place at the U.N. Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) next week. The first meeting, to run from 20-21 October, is the Expert Group Meeting on the Implementation of AISI -- a framework for the establishment in of a development serving information and communications infrastructure in Africa. The experts will meet for the first time under the umbrella of the results. African Technical Advisory Committee (ATAC), mandated by the ECA Conference of Ministers responsible for economic and social development and planning in May 1996 to advise on AISI programmes and projects and to evaluate