2-7 March AfTLD meeting

The African Top Level Domains Association (AfTLD), the association of African ccTLDs, hold its 4th Annual African ccTLD event in Nairobi, Kenya from 2 - 7 March 2010 back-to-back with the ICANN 37 Meeting in Nairobi.

25 Jan - 2 Feb 2010: 14th African Union Heads of State & Government Summit: Theme ICT

African Union Summit
Theme of Summit:  Information and Communication Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development.
Key highlights on ICT
-Africa's booming ICT sector
-Telecoms boss hails President
-Zimbabwe: broadlands to invest U.S.$100 million in infrastructure
-UN hails AU for choosing ICTs as theme of forthcoming 14th summit
Other Highlights
-NEPAD Integrated into African Union Stuctures
-AU declared Peace and Security for Year 2010:
Congratulations:  DCA congratulates the new AU President, H.E. Bingu Wa Mutharika, president of Malawi, upon his election as president of the African Union at the 14th ordinary session of the assembly of heads of state and government of the AU.

6 Nov 2009 Johannesburg: Africa Ministers conference adopts ICT declaration

The extraordinary conference of African Union (AU) ministers in charge of Communication and Information Technologies (CITMC) held in Johannesburg, South Africa, adopted the Oliver Tambo Declaration, on 6 November 2009. The African Union held this extraordinary session in preparation for the 2010 AU Summit dedicated to Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) to be held in January 2010 in Ethiopia under the theme "Information and Communications Technologies in Africa: Challenges and Prospects for Development".  The ministerial conference ended with the adoption (with amendments) of the Oliver Tambo Declaration, Johannesburg 2009 which lays out commitments by AU Member States in the development of ICT, recommendations for the way forward and directives for the African Union to follow up.   The AU ICT session served as a consolidating forum for the ministers of Communications to present to the heads of state and government a common view on ICT development in Africa.  The meeting sought consensus on harmonizing policy, legal and regulatory frameworks at regional and continental level to create an enabling environment to attract investment and foster sustainable development of competitive ICT markets in the continent, more...