Theme:  LEADERSHIP AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA.

 

PROTEGE QV will attend the 2nd ICT Best Practices African Forum, which will be held in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, from April 21st to April 23rd, 2008.

The conference took place in Dakar between the 16th and 20th March and was organised by IDLELO.

Some of the main events were:

The Digital Doorway project made use of FOSS and Open Content

For the first time from 16th to 18th April this year, RwandaTelecentre (RTN) will bring together 70 people for 3 days to talk about Telecentres. Participants include Telecentre operators and other key players in Rwanda Telecentre movement. The forum will be hosted by Nyamata Telecentre located at 30 Kms from Kigali. RITA (Rwanda Information Technology Authority) through e-Rwanda project has committed to provide possible financial resources for the event.

Registration for the fifth East Africa Telecentre Leaders Forum is now in progress. The event will take place in the Sudan's Gadaref City from 1st to 4th May 2008.

Registration fee is US$ 90 for Eastern African participants and US$ 150 for participants from other countries. Please contact the secretariat@ugabytes.org for details.

30 full board scholarships for accommodation and 15 for air tickets will be available for Eastern African participants for early registrants.

The Africa Peace Building Club is the only NGO in Ghana that works currently on educating the people of the three northern regions where is recently noted as conflict zones.

The organisation started the community conferencing since the year 2005 from region to region and also for those citizen of the north living in the south. Actually each of the three regions have its perculia problems and causes of conflicts and other forms of disturbances. some are CHIEFATANCY, LAND, POLITICAL, etc.

Blogger Erik Hersman publishes a report back on the Africa 2.0 Panel recently held in Austin, Texas as part of the SXSW conference