Awareness Workshop #3

20 & 21 July 2007

Accra, Ghana

Opening ceremony

Gaston Zongo
ICT Policy Adviser
Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), Senegal

Rexford Osei
Director of Science
Ministry of Education, Sports and Science, Ghana

Dick Naezer
First Counsellor and Economic and Trade Adviser
The Delegation of the European Commission in Accra, Ghana

Hon. Mike Oquaye
Minister of Communications
Message read by Patrick Yiriyelleh, Ministry of Communications, Ghana

Introduction to the EuroAfrica-ICT Project

Ken Lohento
CIPACO project Manager, Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), Senegal
EuroAfrica-ICT Project Regional Coordinator

Importance of R&D and ICT in Africa

Chair : Estelle Sowah
Manager, Busy Internet, Ghana

R&D in the ICT field in West Africa: constraints and opportunities
Kwame O. Boateng
Senior Lecturer, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology, Ghana

R&D in the ICT field in Africa: the private sector view
Lanre Ajayi
Managing Director, PINET Informatics, Nigeria

R&D and ICT in Sierra Leone
Kofie Isaac Danner
University of Sierra Leone, Department of Information Systems, Sierra Leone

Status & Perspectives of the EU - sub-Saharan African S&T/ICT Cooperation

Chair : Dorothy Gordon
Director-General
Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE), Ghana

Godfred Frempong
Senior Research Scientist, Science and Technology Policy Research Institute (STEPRI)
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana

Raphael Koffi
Adviser - Telecoms/ICT
Economic Commission of West African States (ECOWAS), Nigeria

Michael Awoleye
Researcher, ICT Coordinator
National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Nigeria

Introduction to the 7th Framework Programme (ICT Theme)

Karine Valin
Managing Director, Orionis, France
Project Coordinator, EuroAfrica-ICT

Introduction to the 7th Framework Programme (African participation, Call for proposals #2)

Ken Lohento
CIPACO Project Manager, Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), Senegal
EuroAfrica-ICT Project Regional Coordinator

Ongoing R&D Initiatives

Chair : Dr. Pascal Hoba
Head of communication and services
Association of African Universities (AAU), Ghana

E-cash and Ghana News Portal
Nii Quaynor
Chairman, Ghana.com, Ghana

Eshekels researches
Egbejimba Remigius Henry
General Manager, Eshekels, Ghana

Introduction of Proposal Ideas and Expression of Interest

Data as a Network -Tropically Tolerant Content Management
Eric Osiakwan
Association of African Internet Service Provider Associations (AFRISPA), Ghana

Strengthening CSIR infrastructure
Mahamuda Alhaji Mahamadu
Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Ghana

Towards an Online University Distance Learning Programme for Ghana
Hillar Addo
Computer Aid, South Africa

IPv6 over Adhoc Networks
Addo Eleanor
AITI-KACE, Ghana

Chair : Gaston Zongo
ICT Policy Adviser
Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA), Senegal

Localization of software into TWIN-AN aspect of semantics
Joana Portia Antwi-Danso
University of Education, Winneba, Ghana

Development and implementation of ePost (hybrid mail) for African Post Offices
Lanre Ajayi
Managing Director, PINET Informatics, Nigeria

Language and technology
Tunde Opeibi
Lecturer, University of Lagos, Nigeria

Health Information Systems for Health project monitoring and evaluation
and Billing software for patients presenting in Primary Care in Lagos general practices
Olusesan Makinde
Association for health Informatics, Nigeria

MoA-ELiNU: Modelling Adoption of E-Learning in Nigerian Universities
Michael Awoleye
ICT Coordinator, National Centre for Technology Management (NACETEM), Nigeria

FLOSS4Edu – Open Educational Resources for Africa
Nicholas Kimolo
Co-ordinator, FLOSS4Edu, Kenya

Lab visits

Labs in the University of Ghana, Ghana (ICT Directorate)

Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT - AITI-KACE