Report of the Fourth meeting of the Committee On Development Information (CODI IV)

Abstract

The Fourth Session of the committee on development information took place in Addis Ababa during the period 25-28 April 2005 and was preceded by workshops on the 23rd and the 24th April 2005 during which the main questions of the CODI IV agenda have been explained and reviewed. An exhibition was also mounted for CODI IV. CODI IV was held on the Theme: Information as an Economic Resource". The various Sessions were then devoted to examining Information as a strategic factor of production of goods and services. The Keynote address was presented at the First Plenary session by Mr Moubarack LO, with responses on the perspectives of ICT, Library, Geo-information and Statistics from respectively Dr Dayo Ogunyemi; Prof Mchombu Kingo; Prof. Peter Adeniyi and Dr Buleti Nsamukula.