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1 The EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Initiative | 2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT | November 26-30, 2012 | Lisbon, Portugal

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DAY 3 - NOVEMBER 28, 2012 (WEDNESDAY) 2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT - Day 1

Venue: Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) - Registrations: http://store.sigma-orionis.com/login?conferenceid=58

07:30 - Registrations & Welcome of Participants (Welcome Coffee offered by Novabase)

09:00-09:05 - Opening Remarks & Conference Expected Outcomes

09:00 Karine Valin

Managing Director, Sigma Orionis & Project Coordinator, EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 - France

09:05-10:00 - Welcome Addresses

Chair | Ana Neves (Director of Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal) & Barend Taute (Manager, Contract R&D, CSIR Meraka Institute & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - South Africa)

Rapporteur | Eunice M. Kariuki (Deputy CEO & Marketing Director, Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Kenya)

09:05 Pedro Cabrita Carneiro

Member of the Board, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science - Portugal

09:15 Moctar Yedaly

Head of the Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC)

09:25

Zoran Stančič

Deputy Director-General, DG CONNECT (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content & Technology), European Commission (EC)

09:35 Leonor Parreira

Secretary of State of Science, Ministry of Education and Science - Portugal

10:00-10:30 - Networking Coffee & Tea Break (offered by Novabase)

10:30-11:00 - Official Launch of AfricaConnect PRESENTATION SESSION

Chairs | Cathrin Stöver (Chief International Relations and Communications Manager, DANTE - Spain) & Francis F. Tusubira (CEO, UbuntuNet Alliance - Uganda)

Rapporteur | Tiwonge Msulira Banda (F&A Manager, UbuntuNet Alliance - Malawi)

10:30-10-35 Matthew Scott

General Manager, DANTE - United Kingdom

10:30-10-44 Denis Salord

Head of Unit/E5, DG DEVCO, European Commission (EC)

10:44-10:47 Francis F. Tusubira

CEO, The UbuntuNet Alliance - Uganda

10:47-10:55 Video

10:55-11:00 Zimani Kadzamira

Chair, The UbuntuNet Alliance - Malawi

11:00-11:30 - Keynote Address PRESENTATION SESSION

Chair | Eunice M. Kariuki (Deputy CEO & Marketing Director, Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Kenya)

Rapporteur | Margarida Almeida Ribeiro (External Affairs Officer, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal)

Ilari Patrick Lindy



Senior Operations Officer, Innovation Practice (WBII), World Bank Institute - US

eTransform Africa

11:30-12:30 - The AU & EU Programmes and their Supporting Cooperation Frameworks - Priorities, Implementation Status, and Remaining Challenges PRESENTATION SESSION

Chairs | Edmund Katiti (Acting Head of the NEPAD e-Africa Programme - South Africa) & Konstantinos Glinos (Head of Unit: GEANT and e-Infrastructures, DG CONNECT, European Commission)

Rapporteur | Inas Fateem (R&D and Training Department Manager, Ministry of Communications and IT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Egypt)

11:30

Harry De Backer

Former Minister Counsellor EU Delegation to the African Union, European Commission (EC)

Recent developments and perspectives for EU-Africa cooperation on ICT

11:45

Moctar Yedaly

Head of the Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC) - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

The AU reference framework for ICT policies harmonisation & implementation of the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA) & The Africa-EU Partnership on Infrastructures (3rd Partnership)

12:00

Presentation by the European and African co-Chairs of the Joint Expert Group of Partnership 8 (JEG8)

Cristina Vaz Tomé - Vice President of the tropical Institute of Portugal (IICT) & European co-Chair of the Joint Expert Group of Partnership 8 (JEG8) - Portugal

Rached Hamza - General Director of CERT (Centre d' Etudes et de Recherche des Télécommunications) & African co-Chair of the Joint Expert Group of Partnership 8 (JEG8) - Tunisia

The Africa-EU Partnership on Science, Information Society & Space (8th Partnership)

12:10

Oluf Nielsen

South African Desk Officer, DG CONNECT (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology), European Commission (EC)

Recent developments and perspectives for EU-South Africa cooperation on ICT

12:20

Alvise Forcellini

Manager, Programme Management Unit (PMU), The ACP Secretariat

The second Call for Proposals of the ACP-EU Cooperation Programme in Science and Technology (ACP S&T II)

12:30-14:00 - Networking Lunch Break

Welcome address from Florbela Paraiba, Director, Department of Sub-Saharan Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs - Portugal

14:00-15:00 - Exploring funding mechanisms to support Public-Private Partnerships PANEL DISCUSSION

Chairs | Saskia Harmsen (Officer Community Relations: Innovation & Capacity Development, IICD & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - The Netherlands) & Roger Torrenti (CEO, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Advisor - France)

Rapporteur | Bjorn Pehrson (Professor, Department of Communication Systems, KTH - Sweden & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Sweden)

Moctar Yedaly: Head of Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC)

Harry De Backer: Former Minister Counsellor EU Delegation to the African Union, European Commission (EC)

Ali Yahiaoui: Chief ICT Officer, Department of Transport & ICT, African Development Bank (AfDB) - Tunisia

Ana Neves: Director of Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science - Portugal

Crispus Kiamba: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Higher Education, Science & Technology - Kenya

Sam Kundishora: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT - Zimbabwe

Ilari Patrick Lindy: Senior Operations Officer, Innovation Practice (WBII), World Bank Institute - US

Jan Eloff: Research Director, SAP Research, Meraka UTD - South Africa

Daan du Toit: Minister Counsellor, South African Mission to the EU, Department of S&T (DST) - South Africa / Belgium



Jyrki Pulkkinen: Senior Adviser, Information Society & STI for Development Ministry for Foreign Affairs & Chair of the European Expert Group of Partnership 8 (EEG8) Information Society sub-group - Finland

Michelle Makaroff: Smart Technologies - Belgium

14:40 Open discussions (20’)

15:00-16:00 - Lively Roundtable Discussion on Africa-EU Cooperation on Open Living Labs (local innovation & technology transfer): Taking Research Results to Local Innovation PANEL DISCUSSION

Chairs | Jessica Colaço (Member of the Ushahidi Inc Team, Manager of the iHub, Mobile Technology Evangelist, and Founder of Mobile Boot Camp - Kenya) & Hannes Toivanen (Principal Scientist, VTT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Finland)

Rapporteur | Saskia Harmsen (Officer Community Relations: Innovation & Capacity Development, IICD & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - The Netherlands)

Inas Fateem: R&D & Training Department Manager, Ministry of Communications & IT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Egypt

Sibukele Gumbo: Project Lead, Siyakhula Living Lab Management Unit, University of Fort Hare - South Africa

Alvaro Oliveira: President Emeritus, International Chair of the European Network of Living Labs (EnoLL) - Portugal

Stephan J. Lamprecht: Venture Solutions, Innovation Management & Commercialisation - South Africa

Marlien Herselman: Chair, Living Labs in Southern Africa (LLiSA), CSIR - South Africa

Jyrki Pulkkinen: Senior Adviser, Information Society & STI for Development Ministry for Foreign Affairs & Chair of the European Expert Group of Partnership 8 (EEG8) Information Society sub-group - Finland


16:00-16:30 - Networking Coffee & Tea Break (offered by Novabase)

16:30-18:00 - The Role and Priorities of the African Regional Economic Communities (RECs) as Building Blocks for Regional Integration through ICT Networks PANEL DISCUSSION

Chairs | Moctar Yedaly (Head of the Information Society Division, African Union Commission) & Konstantinos Glinos (Head of Unit: GEANT and e-Infrastructures, DG CONNECT, European Commission)

Rapporteur | Barend Taute (Manager, Contract R&D, CSIR Meraka Institute & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - South Africa)

Cecilia Mamelodi-Onyadile: Southern African Development Community (SADC)

Abu Dafalla: Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA)

Robert Achieng: The East African Community (EAC)

Raphael Koffi: Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS)

Michael Katundu: The East African Communications entities Organisation (EACO)

Edmund Katiti: The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)

Emmanuel Kamdem: The Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS)

Makane Faye: Regional Advisor on Information Systems Development, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)

Open Discussions (30’)

18:00-20:00 - Networking Cocktail offered by the AfricaConnect Partnership

20:00 - End of the “2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT” Day 1

TRACK A (Room #7

“Sophia de Mello Breyner” - Also plenary room)

TRACK B (Room #9 “Maria Helena Vieira da

Silva”)

TRACK C (Room #13 “Amalia

Rodrigues”)

TRACK D (Room #14 “Lopes

Graça”)



DAY 4 - NOVEMBER 29, 2012 (THURSDAY) 2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT - Day 2

Venue: Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) - Registrations: http://store.sigma-orionis.com/login?conferenceid=58

08:00 - Registrations & Welcome of Participants

09:00-10:00 - Euro-African Joint ICT Research Priorities PRESENTATION SESSION

Chairs | Eunice M. Kariuki (Deputy CEO & Marketing Director, Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Kenya) & Karl Jonas (Head of CC RESCON, Resource Optimized Networks, Fraunhofer FOKUS & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Germany)

Rapporteur | Bjorn Pehrson (Professor, Department of Communication Systems, KTH & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Sweden)

09:00

Carlos Oliveira

Policy Officer, DG CONNECT (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology), European Commission (EC)

International Cooperation on ICT Research: FP7 remaining Calls for Proposals and Horizon 2020 perspectives

09:15

Barend Taute

Manager: Contract R&D at CSIR Meraka Institute & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Technical Coordinator for Africa - South Africa) & Hannes Toivanen

Principal Scientist, VTT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Technical Coordinator for Europe - Finland

Underpinning Euro-African joint ICT research priorities

09:30

Short announcements on newly launched EU-funded projects addressing EU-Africa cooperation on e-Infrastructures

1. Vasilis Koulolias (Director, eGovLab - Sweden) - The iMentors Project

2. Karine Valin (Managing Director, Sigma Orionis & eI4Africa Project Coordinator - France) - The eI4Africa Project

3. Federico Ruggieri (Director of Research at INFN - Italy) - The CHAIN-REDS Project


10:00-10:30 - Keynote Addresses PRESENTATION SESSION

Chair | Mohamadou Arabani Saibou (General Director, ESMT Ecole Superieure Multinationale des Telecommunications & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Senegal) & Ana Neves (Director of Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal)

Rapporteur | Karl Jonas (Head of CC RESCON, Resource Optimized Networks, Fraunhofer FOKUS & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Germany)

10:00

Catherinerose Barretto

Entrepreneur, KINU - Tanzania

Presentation Title TBA

10:15

José Luis Encarnação

Prof. Dr.-Ing. (Emer.), TU Darmstadt, Informatik & Chairman, ICT Working Group, Acatech (German Academy of Engineering) - Germany “Mobile Empowerment” for the socio-economic development

10:30-11:00 - Networking Coffee & Tea Break

11:00-12:30 - Thematic Sessions (Part 1)

Chairs | Helena Tapper (Programme Manager, African Leadership in ICT (ALICT), Global e-School and Communities Initiative (GeSCI) - Kenya) & Boubakar Barry (Coordinator, African Association University, AAU - Ghana) Rapporteur | Mohamadou Arabani Saibou (General Director, ESMT Ecole Superieure Multinationale des Telecommunications & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Senegal)

PRESENTATION SESSION (30’) + Q&A DISCUSSIONS

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1A

Technology Enhanced

Learning (e-Learning & e-

Skills)

Towela Nyirenda-Jere: Programme manager, NEPAD e-Africa Programme - South Africa

Implications of the Post-2015 Agenda for the NEPAD e-Schools Initiative

Marc van den Homberg: Senior Business Developer ICT for Development, TNO - The Netherlands

The Connect.Teaching Project

Maria Rosario Oliveira Martins: ISEGI & IHMT, Universidade Nova de Lisboa - Portugal

ICT use for learning purposed: developing competences and establishing best practises between Universidade Nova de Lisboa & Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Mozambique

Mikko Henrik Pitkänen: Head of Project Management, Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä - Finland

Technology enhanced literacy training with GraphoGame

Samuel Igbatayo: Associate Professor/Head, Department of Economics, Afe Babalola University - Nigeria

Fostering sustainable technology solutions for higher education in Africa : challenges and opportunities

Poncelet O. Ileleji: Coordinator, The Gambia YMCAs Computer Training Centre & Digital Studio - The Gambia Bridging the learning divide through ICT in rural communities - A case study for sub-Saharan Africa

Paula Oliveira on behalf of Antonio Jose Batel Anjo: Advisor to the Minister, Ministry of Education (MINED) - Mozambique & Researcher/Professor University of Aveiro - Portugal/Mozambique

The ‘Pensas Project’ - Training teachers with ICT

1B

e-Infrastructures & nRENs -

AfricaConnect

Chairs | Leonardo Flores Anover (Scientific Officer, GEANT and e-Infrastructures, DG CONNECT, European Commission) & Zimani Kadzamira (Chair, The UbuntuNet Alliance - Malawi)

Rapporteur | Joseph Kimaili (Technical Manager, UbuntuNet Alliance - Malawi)

PRESENTATION SESSION

The Partners (35’)

Francis F. Tusubira: CEO, The UbuntuNet Alliance - Uganda

UbuntuNet Alliance and the Member NRENs: evolution, current status, current state of UbuntuNet, the data network (15’)

Cathrin Stöver: Chief International Relations & Communications Manager, DANTE - Spain

GEANT/DANTE: at the centre of global research and education networking (15’)

Discussions (5’)

Closing the gaps (30’)

Francis F. Tusubira (CEO, The UbuntuNet Alliance - Uganda) & Cathrin Stöver (Chief International Relations & Communications Manager, DANTE - Spain)

AfricaConnect: elements, progress, capacity building, business models, prognosis (20’)

Discussions (10’)

Exploitation (20’)

Tiwonge Msulira Banda (F&A Manager, UbuntuNet Alliance - Malawi)

Current, emerging, and potential opportunities for exploitation of the network (15’)

Discussions (5’)

1C

e-Government & e-Democracy

Chairs | Vasilis Koulolias (Director, eGovLab - Sweden) & Angela Crandall (Project Manager, iHub Research - Kenya)

Rapporteur | Laura De Nale (Project Assistant, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 - France)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Ashnah Kalemera: Programme Officer at CIPESA - Uganda

The ICT4 Democracy in East Africa Network

Manuel Ricou: Member of the Board of AMA (Administrative Modernization Agency) - Portugal

Drivers, objectives and tools of Public Services reform in Portugal

Vladimir Radunovic: Internet Governance and e-Diplomacy, DiploFoundation - Serbia

Capacity Development for Inclusive ICT Policy and Decision-Making in Africa



Souop Kamga Boris Degloire: Enseignant/Diplomate, Promoteur du Cabinet I2T - Cameroun

African administrations and challenges of electronic governance: between international requirements and performance research in publics services, which governance for African countries?

Louis Papaemmanoui: Project Manager, Goc2U - Greece

The Africa4AllInititiave take up in Uganda and Botswana

Sam Kundishora: Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ICT - Zimbabwe


1D

ICT4D - ICT for Development

Chairs | Saskia Harmsen (officer Community Relations: Innovation & Capacity Development, IICD & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - The Netherlands) & Jerome Morrissey (CEO, GeSCI - Kenya)



Nils Jensen: Founder of ICT4D, Africa Forum & Advisor at DSV & SPIDER, Stockholm University - Sweden


James Tamgno: Lecturer, ESMT Ecole Superieure Multinationale des Telecommunications de Dakar & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Senegal

The VOICES Project

Abiodun Jagun: Researcher, Technology, Society & Markets, Independent Researcher and Consultant - Nigeria & UK


Jyrki Pulkkinen: Senior Adviser, Information Society & STI for Development Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Finland

The TANZICT Initiative

Filipe Batista: Secretary-General, ARCTEL-CPLP - Portugal

Sustainability powered by ICT

Paul Pöltner: Researcher, Vienna University of Technology - Austria

ICT4DMZ: Strengthening universities' capacities for improved access, use and application of ICT for social development and economic growth in Mozambique

Bernard Yvetot: VP France telecom - France


12:30-14:00 - Networking Lunch Break


2A

ICT for environmental sustainability &

energy efficiency (e-Agriculture & e-Environment)

Chairs | Anwar Vahed (Research Group Leader, Meraka Institute - South Africa) & Bjorn Pehrson (Professor, Department of Communication Systems, KTH - Sweden & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Sweden)

Rapporteur | Tatu Lyytinen (Researcher, VTT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Finland)


François Stepman: Expert, Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) - Ghana

Knowledge management using ICT in agricultural and rural development in Africa

Faisal A. Mohamed: Faculty of Engineering, Omar Al Mukhtar University - Libya

Different Scenarios in Controlling Networked Smart Grid Energy Systems

Walter H Mayer: CEO, Progis Software GmbH - Austria

Countrywide Agro-ICT-infrastructure

Julien Gonnet: Project Manager, RONGEAD - France

From raw data to high value added information on markets: an example of ICT use for small-scale farmers (an @CP-ICT funded-project)

Albert Yeboah Obeng: Founder, Foresight Generation - Ghana

Innovative e-Agriculture for Productivity and Best Environmental Protection Practices in Ghana



2B

e-Infrastructures & nRENs -

WACREN

Chairs | Pedro Veiga (President of FCCN, Foundation for National Scientific Computing, and Responsible of the Portuguese nREN - Portugal) & Omo Oaiya (Lead, Technical Committee, WACREN - Ghana)

Rapporteur | Boubakar Barry (Coordinator, African Association University, AAU - Ghana)


Introducing WACREN (20’ - Presentation)

Tiemoman Kone: President, WACREN

Supporting the development of NRENs in the WACREN region: French NRENs and their associated research organisations (25’ - Panel Discussion)

Sabine Jaume-Rajaonia: External Relations Director, Renater - France

Joel Sor: CIO, CIRAD - France

Damien Alline: Head, Scientific Information Systems Division, IRD - France

Support initiatives (30’ - Presentations)

Jean-Marie Rabevohitra: Vice-President, iRENALA - Madagascar iRENALA, Madagascar opportunities to connect with worldwide RENs

Vasilis Koulolias: Director, eGovLab - Sweden

The iMentors project

Jens Vigen: Scientific Information Officer, CERN - Switzerland

Improving the visibility of African research output through capacity building in digital libraries

Discussions (15’)

2C

Connecting the EU & Africa for collaborative

research

Chairs | Moctar Yedaly (Head: Information Society Division, African union Commission) & Klaus Pendl (Africa Desk Officer, International Relations Unit, DG CONNECT, European Commission)

Rapporteur | Inas Fateem (R&D & Training Department Manager, Ministry of Communications & IT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Egypt)

PRESENTATION SESSION (3 slides per speaker) + PANEL DISCUSSION

Karine Valin: Managing Director, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Coordinator - France

The EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Initiative: Strengthening ICT Research & Policy Links under the 8th Strategic Partnership (CSA)

Eric Mwangi: Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology (MoHEST) & African Coordinator, CAAST-Net - Kenya

The CAAST-Net Initiative (INCO-Net)

Maria Maia: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science & ERAfrica Consortium Member - Portugal

ERAfrica: Developing African-European Joint Collaboration for S&T (ERA-Net)

José Bonfim: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science & MIRA Consortium Member - Portugal

The MIRA Initiative (INCO-Net)

Daan du Toit: Minister Counsellor (S&T), South African Mission to the European Union, Department of Science and Technology (DST) - South Africa / Belgium

The South African mechanisms and the ESASTAP Initiative

Jyrki Pulkkinen: Senior Adviser, Information Society & STI for Development Ministry for Foreign Affairs - Finland

The Finnish mechanisms

Paul Cunningham: CEO, IIMC & IST-Africa Coordinator - Ireland

The IST-Africa initiative (CSA)

Chairs | Martti Ranin (President, MobileMonday Services - Finland) & Jessica Colaço (Member of the Ushahidi Inc Team, Manager of the iHub, Mobile Technology Evangelist, and Founder of Mobile Boot Camp - Kenya)

Rapporteur | Eunice M. Kariuki (Deputy CEO & Marketing Director, Kenya ICT Board (KICTB) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project



2D

Mobile Applications

(m-Apps incl. m-Health & m-Education) &

Social Networking

Partner - Kenya)

PANEL DISCUSSION

Marlien Herselman: Chair, Living Labs in Southern Africa (LLiSA), CSIR - South Africa

McLean Sibanda: CEO, Innovation Hub - South Africa

Evans J.Nyagah (represented by Eunice M. Kariuki): Head of Enterprise Sales & Wholesale, Safaricom Limited - Kenya (m-Pesa)

Dirk Elias: Executive Director, Fraunhofer Research - Portugal

Sabine Moebs: IRCSET Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Dublin City University, Ireland

Mmamakanye Pitse-Boshomane: Senior Technologist, Knowledge Application, CSIR - South Africa

Giacomo Rambaldi: Senior Programme Coordinator: ICT4D, CTA - The Netherlands

15:30-16:00 - Networking Coffee & Tea Break


3A

Advanced technology to

improve health (e-Health & HIS)

Chairs | Ousmane Ly (General Director, Agence Nationale de Télésanté et d'Informatique Médicale (ANTIM) - Mali) & Hannes Toivanen (Principal Scientist, VTT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Technical Coordinator for Europe – Finland)

Rapporteur | Inas Fateem (R&D and Training Department Manager, Ministry of Communications and IT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Egypt)


Malick Diagne: Responsable, Télédétection et traitement d'images, Centre de Suivi Ecologique - Senegal

e/m-Health for disaster management

Donart Ngarambe: Senior Lecturer & Director of the Regional e-Health Center of Excellence - Rwanda

Presentation Title

Dereje Yohannes: Researcher, George Simon Ohm University (Germany) & Adama Science & Technology University (Ethiopia)

Web based Malaria expert system with embedded Ethiopian local languages

Grace Thoithi: Professor, University of Nairobi - Kenya

ICT for health in Africa

Maximo Ramirez-Robles, Ana Jimenez-Catellanos, & Victor Maojo: Univerisdad Politecnica de Madrid - Spain

A new platform to foster health collaboration in Africa: the AfricaBuild Project

Marcel Rémon: Coordinator of the Eb@le-Sante Project, Namur University - Belgium

Eb@lé-Santé: an @CP-ICT project for e-Health in DRCongo university hospitals

Thato Bolila : Research Officer at Department of Science and Technology - Lesotho


3B

Future Internet, Internet of Things

& Low Cost Technologies

Chairs | Idris Rai (Vice-Chancellor, State University, Zanzibar) & Georgios Tsenlentis (Scientific Project Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission)



Georgios Tsenlentis: Scientific Project Officer, DG CONNECT, European Commission

Affordable technologies to access Future Internet + Call for Proposals 10 Ob. 1.7 d (EU-SA co-funding)

Joao Nuno Ferreira: Technical Director, Foundation for National Scientific Computing (FCCN) - Portugal

IPv6

Rui L. Aguiar: Professor, Universidade de Aveiro & Head of Research Group, Instituto de Telecomunições - Portugal

Future Internet: an opportunity for African Telecommunication developments

Nkundwe Mwasaga: Lectrurer, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology - Tanzania

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Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT)

Pedro Malo: Faculty of Science and Technology, FCT, New University of Lisbon - Portugal

Probing EU-Africa Cooperation on Internet of things: the PROBES-I(o)T Project

Haluk Gökmen: Consultant, Arcelik A.S. - Turkey

Fi-PPP (Future Internet - Public-Private Partnerships) use-case project FInest (Future Internet enabled optimization of transport and Logistics business networks)

3C

Building & Strengthening

capacities in ICT Research

Chairs | Saskia Harmsen (officer Community Relations: Innovation & Capacity Development, IICD & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - The Netherlands) & George Mulamula (ICT Senior Advisor, COSTEC - Tanzania)


PANEL DISCUSSION

Temechegn Engida: Program Officer, ICT Use in Education, UNESCO-IICBA - Ethiopia

Edmund Katiti: Acting Head of the NEPAD e-Africa Programme - South Africa

Bjorn Pehrson: Professor, Department of Communication Systems, KTH - Sweden

Ntagwirumugara Etienne: Senior Lecturer & Consultant at Kigali Institute of Sciences and Technologies (KIST) - Rwanda

Catherinerose Barretto: Consultant - Tanzania

Pedro Guedes Oliveira: Professor at UPorto, Head of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department & Researcher at INESC Porto - Portugal

Laurens Cloete: Executive Director, CSIR Meraka Institute - South Africa

3D

Cyber Security & Trustworthy ICT

Chairs | Barend Taute (Manager: Contract R&D, CSIR Meraka Institute, and EuroAfrica-ICT Project Partner - South Africa) & Dirk Elias (Executive Director, Fraunhofer Research - Portugal) Rapporteur | Tatu Lyytinen (Researcher, VTT & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Finland)

PRESENTATION SESSION + SHORT DISCUSSION

Marijke Coetzee: Associate Professor, university of Johannesburg - South Africa Presentation Title

Jim Clarke: Telecommunications Software & Systems Group, Waterford Institute of Technology - Ireland

Presentation Title

Neeraj Suri: TUD Chair, Professor, Dependable Embedded Systems & Software Dept. of Computer Science, TU Darmstadt - Germany

Trustworthy e-Systems, infrastructures and services: the international data issue

Jan Eloff: Research Director, SAP Research, Meraka UTD - South Africa

Information security innovation

Paulo Veríssimo: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Lisbon Faculty of Sciences - Portugal

The MASSIF Project experience “Management of security information in service infrastructures”

Sandro Bazzanella: Director ITU-EC Project at International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

The HIPSSA Project

17:30-17:45 - Conference main outputs

Chair | Roger Torrenti (CEO, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Advisor - France)

Rapporteur | Margarida Almeida Ribeiro (External Affairs Officer, Science & Technology Foundation (FCT) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal)

Barend Taute

Manager: Contract R&D at CSIR Meraka Institute - South Africa

& EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner (Technical Coordinator for Africa)

Hannes Toivanen

Principal Scientist - Finland



& EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner (Technical Coordinator for Europe)

17:45-18:00 - Closing Session & Concluding Addresses

Chairs | Karine Valin (Managing Director, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Coordinator - France) & Laurens Cloete (Executive Director, CSIR Meraka Institute - South Africa)


Klaus Pendl

Project Officer, Africa Desk Officer, DG CONNECT (Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology), European Commission (EC)

Moctar Yedaly

Head of Information Society Division, African Union Commission (AUC)

Nienke Buisman

Policy Officer, S&T relations with sub-Saharan African Countries, International cooperation Unit, Directorate-General Research (DG RTD), European Commission (EC)

Harry De Backer

Former Minister Counsellor EU Delegation to the African Union, European Commission (EC)

Ana Neves

Director of Department of Information Society, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT), Ministry of Education and Science & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal

17:00-18:05 - Votes of Thanks

Karine Valin

Managing Director, Sigma Orionis - France

& EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Coordinator

18:05 - End of the “2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT”

Documents

DAY 3 NOVEMBER 28, 2012 (W - FCT€¦ · Towela Nyirenda-Jere: Programme manager, NEPAD e-Africa Programme - South Africa Implications of the Post-2015 Agenda for the NEPAD e-Schools