International Conference on ICT for Africa 2012: Africa's E-Inclusion

[Event]
From 21/03/2012 to 24/03/2012
Location: Kampala, Uganda

"Africa's E-Inclusion: Defying the Odds and Leading the Way in Global ICT Innovation"

The adoption and diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Africa is growing as evidenced by the upsurge in mobile markets and emerging innovative application in e-banking, e-business, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-democracy, e-agriculture and more.

The International Conference on ICT for Africa is an annual conference that brings together stakeholders of the educational and industrial sectors in Africa, with the aim of reflecting on how to transfer, diffuse and adopt ICTs within the African context; the innovation and development of ICT solutions for and within this context; impacts of ICT on society and of society on ICT; and other relevant normative, empirical, and theoretical concerns of ICT development, implementation, strategy, management and policy that are distinctive to Africa and associated developing economies.

Conference presentations and discussions will focus on application of ICT in various fields including agriculture, climate change, business, education, governance, health care, youth and gender.

 For more information or to register, visit http://www.ictforafrica.org/

ICT4Africa 2012 Conference brochure.pdf