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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
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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
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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
15:40 Open discussions (20’)
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”)
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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
09:45 Open discussions (20’)
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
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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
Presentation Title TBA
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)
Rapporteur | Margarida Almeida Ribeiro (External Affairs Officer, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal)
PRESENTATION SESSION
Nils Jensen: Founder of ICT4D, Africa Forum & Advisor at DSV & SPIDER, Stockholm University - Sweden
Presentation Title TBA
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
Presentation Title TBA
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
Presentation Title TBA
12:30-14:00 - Networking Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 - Thematic Sessions (Part 2)
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)
PRESENTATION SESSION
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
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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)
PRESENTATION SESSION
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
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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
16:00-17:30 - Thematic Sessions (Part 3)
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)
PRESENTATION SESSION
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
Presentation Title TBA
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)
Rapporteur | Margarida Almeida Ribeiro (External Affairs Officer, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Project Partner - Portugal)
PRESENTATION SESSION
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)
Rapporteur | Laura De Nale (Project Assistant, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 - France)
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
10 The EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 Initiative | 2012 Africa-EU Cooperation Forum on ICT | November 26-30, 2012 | Lisbon, Portugal
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& 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)
Rapporteur | Laura De Nale (Project Assistant, Sigma Orionis & EuroAfrica-ICT/P8 - France)
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”