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Forum of African Local Authorities on the Information Society

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Başlangıç Tarihi ve Saati Temmuz 8, 2003 0:00 ÖÖ (Öğleden Önce). Bitiş Tarihi ve Saati Temmuz 10, 2003 0:00 ÖÖ (Öğleden Önce). Yer Mauritania Etkinlik Maliyeti RSVP Bilgi E-posta eliane.pillevuit@unitar.org Kategoriler Technology Etiketler Etiket eklmek için oturum açmanız gerekmektedir.

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This event will showcase local and regional African projects
on e-governance, e-health, e-education, e-inclusion and e-economy, with
the aim of bringing to the fore African experiences in order to
strengthen local authorities' capacities for implementing and promoting
the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
throughout urban and/or rural communities in Africa.

The Forum's outcomes to be presented at the Lyon Summit will
be a Declaration of Principles and a Plan of Action of Cities and
Regions, with concrete recommendations for filling gaps, avoiding
overlaps and exploiting complementarities in support of local actors.
The exercise will span the full range of options from south-south
decentralised cooperation to training in specialised skills. This will
allow local actors to prepare themselves effectively for their
important role in the new Information Society.

The main objectives of this Regional Forum are to:

(a) Present the WSLAIS and WSIS challenges for regions and local
authorities;
(b) Document and examine regional and local authorities' expertise in
the field of Information Society to be implemented in the context of
NEPAD;
(c) Analyze the factors of success and the constraints faced by regional
and local authorities in their efforts to develop the Information
Society in Africa;
(d) Prepare the position of African regional and local actors to be
presented at the WLAIS and WSIS.

Expected outcomes from the Regional Forum are:

(a) Definition of the role and responsibilities of regions and local
authorities in the Information Society;
(b) Definition of relations and identification of potential partnerships
between local actors, central governments, civil society and private
sector in a South-South and North-South context;
(c) Assessment of capacity building needs in the field of the
Information Society at the sub-national and local level;
(d) Outlined political Declaration of regions and local authorities to
be presented at the WSLAIS and WSIS;
(e) Outlined Plan of Action of regions and local authorities to be
presented at the WSLAIS and WSIS.

Key participants are: representatives of counties, regions, provinces,
departments and municipalities (Governors, Mayors,
Counsellors, etc.); their partners in the public, private and civil
society sectors; as well as international organisations working with
local authorities.