Call for Papers and Conference Announcement The 8TH West Africa Information and Communications Technologies Conference and Exhibition - AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004
Intensive knowledge-sharing platform for Results WHO: AITEC GHANA, Ministry of Communications and Technology and Leaders in West African ICT industry will host The 8th West Africa ICT conference and Exhibition to facilitate a knowledge and information sharing platform on the future of ICT in West Africa and its developmental impact. WHAT: A two- day conference WHEN: 1-2 June, 2004 WHERE: Accra International Conference Center, Accra-Ghana Call for Papers Individuals and organizations are invited to submit proposals for Conference and Workshop Presentations at AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004. The theme for AITEC 2004 is: "BUILDING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND CREATING OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ICT" Presentations will be selected on the basis of their educational value. Commercial product or service promotion will not be permitted in the main conference programme. Companies can book presentations in the Enterprise Solutions Showcase for this purpose. KEY CONFERENCE SESSIONS 1. ICT's Infrastructure Policy and Action Plans 2. Business Process Outsourcing - BPO 3. ICT Strategic solutions and implementation 4. Interconnectivity - Challenges and Solutions 5. Inter-department relationships and influencing board decision-making 6. Corps de Spirit -Training and coaching end users in your organisation TRAINING WORKSHOP 1. Leadership, management and entrepreneurship. 2. Mechanism for successful Intranet deployment - Case study 3. Security - Focus on Spam and viruses 4. Implementing Bar coding System 5. Information and Knowledge Management. CONCURRENT EVENTS World Summit on Information Society - WSIS Workshop 2nd National ICT's forum 1st National ICT's Award Gala Night ICT workshop for Journalist Submission Guidelines: Please email paper abstracts of not more than 400 words by 28th March 2004. They should include: the session title, proposed presentation, presentation title, author's name, institution, address, telephone, e-mail and URL. Abstracts should be e-mailed to Program Chair (Gershon Adzadi, PhD) at <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> indicating the author's last name in the title of the message. The Organising Committee will evaluate the abstracts. The Conference Co-odinating Office will communicate the results of the evaluation by 26th April 2004. Languages: Abstracts and papers may be written in any of the AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004 official languages: English and French. DATES TO REMEMBER 29 March 2004: Deadline for receipt of abstracts. 25 April 2004: Communication to authors regarding the approval of the proposed submissions. 2 May 2004: Deadline for the submission of papers. June 1 - 2 2004: conference dates CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTACT Kwaku Baffour-Ansah AITEC GHANA Accra-Ghana [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------ ***GKD is solely supported by EDC, a Non-Profit Organization*** To post a message, send it to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To subscribe or unsubscribe, send a message to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. In the 1st line of the message type: subscribe gkd OR type: unsubscribe gkd Archives of previous GKD messages can be found at: <http://www.edc.org/GLG/gkd/>
