Projects
EuroAfriCa-ICT
The EuroAfriCa website has been designed and is maintained in the framework of the EuroAfriCa-ICT project, a support action funded by the European Commission Directorate-General Information Society and Media (DG INFSO) through its 7th Framework Programme for Research and Technological Development (FP7). This project builds upon the significant achievements reached by the initial project: START
The EuroAfriCa-ICT project aims at promoting and supporting the development of S&T cooperation on ICT research between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa and between Europe and the Caribbean.
African Development Bank Group - Support to Regional ICT Center of Excellence
The project will support the construction of and equipping of a Center of Excellence in Kigali, the provision of an academic teaching and research programme based on the CMU curriculum, promotion of entrepreneurship and linkages of the CoE to industry and the establishment a project management framework. The components are the following: (1) Construction and equipping of the CoE; (2) Design and delivery of professional graduate degree and research programme; (3) Promotion of business development and partnerships with public, private sector and ICT industry; and (4) Establishment of Project management and coordination framework
ITCA
The Information Technology Centre for Africa (ITCA) is an information and communication technology (ICT) focused exhibition and learning centre to demonstrate to African policy makers and planners the value of ICT for development. The ITCA is an initiative led by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).
Research ICT Africa
Successfully offered for the first time through the UCT GSB Management in Infrastructure Reform and Regulation Programme in association with LIRNE.net in 2009, this new programme is designed to enhance the strategic thinking of a select group of senior decision-makers in telecom and related sectors in developing countries and emerging economies. The aim of the programme is to address the many challenges posed by the current stage of telecom and ICT reform to governments, regulatory agencies, operators and other stakeholders. The certainties of yesterday are no more: traditional approaches to the licensing of networks and services is being challenged by converging technologies services and innovative business models; individual assignments of frequencies are being questioned in the light of new standards such as Wi-Fi and WiMax; the distinctions between wired and wireless are being blurred; classic price regulation is becoming less central to the missions of regulatory agencies; new pro-poor business strategies are challenging conventional universal service models; and all industry players are being challenged to address content issues at various levels.