ECA and Spanish partner launch CREATIC4AFRICA to enhance creativity and technological innovation in African youth.
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The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and the Spanish-based Technology Centre for ICTs (CTIC), have launched the CREATIC 4AFRICA programme for 2011 to establish an innovation hub for Africas’s youth who are keen to create new ICT-based applications to better their societies. Initiated through a Memorandum of Understanding signed between ECA and CTIC during the Second Science with Africa Conference on Science in June 2010, CREATIC4AFRICA aims to spur innovation among Africa’s youth by enabling them develop ideas into viable and solution-based applications, working in CTIC's innovation laboratory in Spain. It is expected that as a result of this project, five African fellows will develop an innovative ICT based application responding to particular needs of their communities, whilst at the same time being commercially viable and sustainable.