[UgaBYTES] Join EuroAfriCa-ICT at the ICT 2008 EVENT

[mutaasa humphrey]

Hello friends
check on this maybe others would ant to attend

Humphrey


FP7/ICT Call 4 is now open!


	* Please take note that a new FP7 call for proposals (ICT theme) has been published today on the Cordis website. 
	* Visit <http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/dc/index.cfm?fuseaction=UserSite.CooperationDetailsCallPage&call_id=185>  for more information on this call. 
	* Contact us for any help you may need in developing your FP7 EuroAfriCa-ICT research proposals: <info at euroafrica-ict.org>

Join EuroAfriCa-ICT at the ICT 2008 EVENT - 25-27 Nov. 2008, Lyon, France


	* Europe’s biggest research event for ICT! (<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/index_en.htm>)


	* N.83 - Networking Session on “Strategic cooperation opportunities with sub-Saharan Africa” 

Nov. 26 at 4:00 pm (<http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/events/ict/2008/networking/programme2/index_en.htm>)


	* D11 - Exhibition Stand

Nov. 25-27 - International Village 

About the EuroAfriCa-ICT Project


A project aiming at supporting ICT Research Cooperation between sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Europe, developed under the Seventh Research Framework Programme of the European Commission (FP7). Developing a range of activities: supporting EuroAfriCa-ICT Dialogues, raising awareness on FP7 and ICT, supporting strategic partnerships and potential cooperation projects, implementing links with other international, regional or national projects.


 Mutaasa B.G. Humphrey 
P.o Box 9816 Kampala 
Uganda East Africa.
Tel:+256 772321736 




________________________________
From: "gkwagner at via.at" <gkwagner at via.at>
To: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Cc: ugabytes at lists.ugabytes.org
Sent: Tuesday, 18 November, 2008 23:50:33
Subject: Re: [UgaBYTES] Knowledge transfer AFRICA to EASTERN EUROPE (and vice versa)

Dear colleagues,

sorry for opening a new chapter.
I have been working for 12 years in some
transformation countries in Eastern Europe
(ex-Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Ukraine)
and their challenges towards information society,
e-learning and e-business seem to be similar to yours.

1) I am not going to post any events in Eastern
and Central Europe on that list.
So if you as individual are interested to receive
my bi-monthly NEWSLETTER, address me directly:
gkwagner at via.at (Mr Gerhard WAGNER)
(Focus: announcement of major EU- or international
conferences in Vienna, Belgrade, Sofia and other
CEE-countries + abstracts of summaries).

*****************

2) In the past three years I worked in Serbia
(ex-Yugoslavia) and finished following reports.
Maybe some of them are useful for your work.

A. the failure of tourism and e-tourism in Serbia and Sicily

B. The weaknesss of the local content- and multimedia-
sector and recommendations to the Serbian Government

C. Creative industries and Cultural heritage:
how to create a local and cross-border market

D. Mobile learning and the radical reform of
the public and nationalized educational system

E. National broadband strategy without CONTENT strategy
is a complete waste of money (see World Summit Award)

*************
Summary: I am not an expert on any African country.
But my friends Franz Nahrada (telehouses, GTA) and
Alex Felsenberg (projects in Kenia) told me a lot about
the challenges in your countries. - And it is my
humble opinion that YOUR challenges and those of the
30 countries in Eastern Europe might be similar to
a certain extent.

They use modern technologies to a certain extent,
but they fail to set up viable and sustainable local
markets which create enough JOBS.
Their book markets are excellent, but they failed
to set up viable DVD and content-markets.

*************

The manager of that mailing-list shall decide
whether the above topic (lessons learnt by
transformation countries in Eastern Europe and
impact on Uganda/Africa) shall be discussed in that
mailing-list or in a separate one.

I am open for any dialogue since I had the feeling
that even the UN in their glorious (but often useless)
ICT-conferences never addressed the opportunity to
transfer lessons learnt between Eastern Europe and
Africa and vice versa.

kind regards,


Gerhard (Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade)
Researcher and analyst





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