Over 200 pupils and students from across Africa say artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics are opening up an exciting vista for their dream careers in innovation. This, thanks to a bootcamp organised by the UN [c]
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta says he is determined to double down on efforts to back women entrepreneurs in Africa. Speaking at the online Africa Business Forum (ABF2021), hosted by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), [c]
Kenyan President, Uhuru Kenyatta, on Monday passionately delivered an inspiring keynote address during the Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) fourth African Business Forum, emphasizing the importance for African governments to create enabling regulatory environments, develop [c]
Former Nigerian Minister for ICT, Dr. Omobola Johnson, delivered the UN Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) annual Adebayo Adedeji at the ongoing Conference of Ministers in Marrakech. Held in memory of the Nigerian scholar Adebayo [c]
The Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), Vera Songwe has called on countries to give female creativity and innovation “all the opportunities required in order to bear fruits and achieve sustainable [c]
African governments must refocus their education curricula and put in place new programmes that factor in mega trends and 4IR, which is the fourth industrial revolution that is all about connectivity, UN Economic Commission for [c]
Investment in innovation is critical if Africa’s new industries, especially in the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, are to play a crucial role in promoting the continent’s structural transformation. The statement was made this [c]
Africa should take advantage of innovation and technology and use them to drive sustainable development, infrastructure and industrialization, the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Peter Thomson said Sunday. Addressing a high-level meeting on [c]
Representatives from over 32 countries have assembled in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the annual Africa review and follow-up of the progress in achieving the World Summit on Information (WSIS) outcomes. The experts in attendance are [c]
Geospatial stakeholders are meeting in Addis Ababa from April 20-22 at the Fourth High Level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management to discuss strengthening the use of geospatial information for good land governance [c]
By James Barnley DCA recently dismissed ICANN’s opposition to its preliminary injunction on delegation of .Africa as #HotAir, in a news report covered by the premier DomainNewsAfrica.. On January 20, 2016, DCA Trust took ICANN to [c]
Geospatial stakeholders are meeting in Addis Ababa from April 20-22 at the Fourth High Level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management. The High Level Forum on United Nations Global Geospatial Information Management will [c]
Central Africa is the area of the continent with the lowest intra-community trade volume, though it may rapidly increase it by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). This was reiterated in presentations during day one [c]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is set to host the world Geospatial Data Infrastructure Conference and AfricaGIS conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from November 4 – 8, 2013. UNECA is jointly hosting [c]
Ten African innovators – who have developed practical solutions that can address some of the continent’s most intractable problems – have been chosen from more than 900 applications from 45 countries as finalists for the [c]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and Applied Development Research Solutions (ADRS) have launched the Online Economic Analysis System (OCEANS), a web-based economics tool meant to help policymakers and researchers make quantitative predictions [c]
Following the successful hosting of the five sub-regional Internet Governance Forums or IGFs by the respective sub-regions, the inaugural Africa Internet Governance Forum (AfrIGF) opened today amidst calls for increased partnership and collaboration to curb [c]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), the African Union Commission, in collaboration with the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ethiopian Association of [c]
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and the African Innovation Foundation (AIF) have announced the call for entries for the 2013 Innovation Prize for Africa (IPA), which aims to contribute towards developing new products, [c]
The director of the ICT, Science & Technology Division of the Addis Ababa-based United Nations Economic Commission of Africa (UNECA) Dr Aida Opoku-Mensah has been bestowed with the ‘Geospatial World Leadership Award for Making a [c]
The Government of Rwanda has launched the Rwanda Innovation Endowment Fund (RIEF) to fund research and development in innovative market-oriented processes and products in partnership with the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) [c]
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