As part of the programme for developing the management and maintenance of railways, the Economic Commission for Africa was entrusted with specific tasks which include those of the Transport, Communications and Tourism ...
L’examen auquel nous procédons cette année constitué le quatrième d’une série destinée à mettre en lunaire la situation économique et sociale des pays de l'Afrique Centrale I. Contrairement aux études passées, nous ...
The Sub-regional workshop on the preparation of National reports for the Regional and World Conferences on Women, organized by the African Training and Research Centre for Women, was convened from 28 to 30 March 1994, in ...
The vision of the African Centre for Women is a society in which development patterns, processes and structures are so transformed, and women so empowered as to enable both women and men equally, to address the challenges ...
The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) of the United Nations Secretariat (New York) has a number of Sub-Committees dealing with various substantive issues such as energy, water, science and technology, rural ...
The future development of national statistics, the government is currently engaged in reconstituting the necessary institutional structure for the collection and compilation of critical socio-economic statistical data to ...
Though relatively young, Universities in Sub-Saharan post-independent Africa have achieved much. They have grown from just 6 institutions in the '60s to more than 100 in 1993 (See ADEA 1999). The increase in number of ...
This study is part of coordinated activities by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to "raise awareness of African governments and other sectors of society on the importance of geographic information ...
The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental international organization, devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of knowledge, research, ...
Uganda has a total surface area of 241,038km2 and an estimated total population of about 22 million (2000) growing at about 2.9% per annum. Life expectancy was estimated at 48 years in 1991. About 85% of the population ...
Online education is an innovative approach to distance learning in which the World Wide Web (www), the Internet and intranets are effectively utilised. At Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), staff ...
The National Statistical Office (NSO) of Malawi is a Government Department whose mandate is governed by the 1967 Statistics Act to collect, compile, analyze and disseminate statistics for the country. The mission of the ...
Most African enterprises are of small and medium size and still predominate in agriculture, industry and services. Their development is however, hampered by many problems, including: lack of managerial and technological ...
The concept of ITCA has grown out of the need to wrap a framework around the growing number of mandates and ICT related outreach activities and the opportunity to reach the approximately 18,000 conference participants that ...
This paper reviews the main outcomes of the ADF 99 deliberations around e-commerce, places ecommerce in the international context, identifies potential markets and promising products and teleservices for African entrepreneurs, ...
The African Information Society Initiative (AISI) is a mission statement for Africa's quest to bridge the digital divide between the continent and the rest of the world, and to speed the continent and the rest of the world, ...
The Second Meeting of the Committee on Natural Resources and Science and Technology (CNRST-2) was held from 30 October to 1st November 2001, at the Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...
The Conference of African Ministers responsible for Economic and Social Development and Planning adopted Resolution No. 826 (XXXII) in April 1996, through which the Ministers structured new Organs to deal with overall ...
The African Virtual Library and Information Network (AVLIN) will be a collaborative of libraries that contribute vision, policy, principles, advocacy and professional services and use information and communications ...
The African Development Forum Meeting, convened by the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) in Addis Ababa in October 1999, considered the development of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) in Africa and ...