Participation in the meeting of committee on development information and partners for information and communication technologies in Africa

Abstract

The mission participated in the organization and the content of the meeting of the Committee on Development Information and the meeting of the Partners for Information and Communication technologies in Africa that was held on September 2001. The meeting produced the report of the sub-committee on information and communication technologies. Also presented a paper on the ECA activities in ICT during CODI II. The Meeting considered and adopted the provisional agenda items. The session began by ECA's briefing on ADF'99 outcomes and the follow up of the recommendations of CODI I. The following recommendations were made by participants: It was recommended that there should be a coordinating mechanism on ICT projects within the continent; It was recommended that there should be a coordinating and monitoring mechanisms on the various ICT projects within the countries; There should be a feedback mechanism between National CODIs and the main CODI meeting; It was recommended that there is a need to introduce an electronic bulletin service to communicate the various activities of CODI and utilize the existing AlSI ListServ.