Awareness Workshop #2

March 28 & 29, 2007

Pretoria, South Africa

Opening session

Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, Meraka Institute

The EuroAfrica-ICT initiative (START project)
Karine Valin
Managing Director, Orionis & Project Coordinator of the EuroAfrica-ICT initiative

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

Thierry Devars
Project Officer, DG Information Society & Media (DG Infso), European Commission

Advancing Science and Technology through Partnerships
Mmboneni Muofhe
Director, Strategic Partnerships, Department of Science & Technology, South Africa

Catalyzing the Knowledge Economy – the case of Mozambique
Jamo Macanze
Manager, MICTI, Mozambique

South Africa’s ICT R&D Strategy
Isaac Maredi
ICT Manager, Department of Science & Technology, South Africa

Successful EuroAfrica S&T Cooperation

SAP Meraka Unit for Technology Development - EuroAfrica Science and
Technology Cooperation in Action
Danie Kok
Director, SAP Research CEC, Pretoria

ICT in French South African Technical Institute in Electronics (F’SATIE)
Damien Chatelain
Senior Lecturer, F’SATIE

Introduction to FP7/ICT & How to build a proposal?

Karine Valin
Managing Director, Orionis & Project Coordinator of the EuroAfrica-ICT initiative
Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, Meraka Institute

Introduction of proposal ideas

WEAR-IT: advanced Wearable Computing and integrated wireless ICT for the aged
and disabled in an enabling environment
Ennio Macagnano
Principal Scientist, Meraka Institute, South Africa

Re-HIUI: Rural e-Healthcare Information Utility Infrastructure
Sunday Ojo
Senior Lecturer, University of Botswana, Botswana

Agile Systems Development for ICT in developing regions
Jacques Steyn
IDIA, Monash University, South Africa

Framework for development for Intelligent Interactive Learning
Gilford Hapanyengwi
Director ICT, University of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe

Analysis of the perceptions and attitudes of African women in SADC countries
toward FIFA Worldcup 2010
Braam van der Vyver
IDIA, Monash University, South Africa

Driving African-European Collaboration and Innovation in Agricultural,
Environmental and Health Sciences through Improved Access to Available
Electronic Resources
Gracian Chimwaza
Director, ITOCA, South Africa

e-Government for developing regions
Jan Meyer
IDIA, Monash University, South Africa

CoGIS – GAP: Collaborative Geographical Information System in poor bandwidth
environments; and a platform for facilitating statistically defendable geospatial
analysis
Laurie Barwell, Africa CoGIS Consortium Coordinator
Andries Naude, Science Leader, Geospatial Analysis Platform, CSIR, South Africa

eGoals: Networking for stronger communities by the time of the FIFA World Cup
2010
Jacques Steyn
IDIA, Monash University, South Africa

e-Commerce Solution for sustainable traditional medicine business
Sheelagh Walton
IDIA, Monash University, South Africa

Strengthening network infrastructure in Africa
William Stucke
Chairman, AFRiSPA

Ongoing initiatives addressing EU-Africa cooperation

ESASTAP & ST-EAP - The European-South Africa Science & Technology
Advancement Programme & the Science and Technology Europe Africa Project Anneline Morgan
Deputy Director: Strategic Partnerships International Resources
Department of Science & Technology, South Africa

The IST-Africa initiative
Chris Morris
ICT for Development Specialist, Meraka Institute, South Africa

The African Water initiative
Eiman Karar
Director, Water Research Commission, South Africa

The SIMBA project
Kobus Labuschagne
Research Leader, CSIR, South Africa

The C@R (Collaboration Rural) project
Rudi de Louw
Senior Researcher, SAP Research CEC, South Africa

AFSAGA (African Satellite Communication & Galileo Application)
Eugene Avenant
TTMC Manager, Satellite Application Centre, CSIR, South Africa

SE-OER Project – Sharing European Open Educational Resources throughout
the Developing World
Vis Naidoo
CEO, Mindset Network, South Africa

ITOCA : Information Training and Outreach Centre for Africa
Gracian Chimwaza
Director, ITOCA, South Africa

SAGEM Orga SA (Pty) Ltd
Sanjay Dharwadker
Head, Business Unit for Health Identification, Sagem

SMME Voucher System and “Test-Drive”
Bryan Mayhew
Managing Director, YellowLizard (Pty)

Lab visits to the Meraka Institute

Welcome Address
Sherrin Isaac
Manager, Research Development & Research Funding, Meraka Institute

Digital Doorway
Wireless Africa
National Accessibility Portal