Video taped speech: By K.Y. Amoako under secretary general of the United Nations and executive secretary of the economic commission for Africa

Abstract

Video-taped Speech by K.Y. Amoako Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa. Mr. Amoako, on his remarks highlighted that, Africa is facing, one of the most important is the challenge of the information revolution. As a result, and in the context of ECA's reforms, Harnessing Information Technology for Development is now one of the Commission's most important programme areas. We created a new hub, the Development Information Services Division, to manage this programme. The recommendations from the Telematics Conference made it possible to set up the High Level Working Group on Information and Communications Technologies in Africa which developed AISI. ECA's leadership in AISI is increasingly being recognized, and all the major partners have rallied round the common objective of promoting the use of ICTs for development in Africa.