Building Europe- Africa collaborative Network for applying IST in health care sector

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UNIVERSITETET I OSLO

MINISTRY OF COMMUNICATIONS, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BOTSWANA
UNIVERISTY OF DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA
EDUARDAO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY, FACULTY OF SCIENCE, HEALTH INFORMATION SYSTEMS PROGRAMME MOZAMBIQUE,MOZAMBIQUE
COLLEGE OF MEDICINE, UNIVERSITY OF MALAWI, MALAWI
ADDIS ABABA UNIVERSITY, ETHIOPIA
INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION FOR INFORMATION PROCESSING, AUSTRIA
UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE, SOUTH AFRICA

UNIVERSITETET I OSLO
INSTITUT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, IFI
PROBLEMVEIEN 5-7 1073 BLINDERN
0316   OSLO
NORWAY

The BEANISH initiative which is formally a WITFOR (World Information Technology Forum) project, proposed by EU-African partners and IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) builds upon an existing global RandD network called HISP (Health Information Systems Program). This initiative seeks to involve various institutional actors (government, universities, private sector and NGOs) to strengthen and extend an existing 'Europe-Africa' collaborative network to support the application and sharing of IST application development so as to support cooperation, learning and innovation in mutually beneficial ways.

The project focus is on organization of the WITFOR conference; strengthening of the HISP network by conducting case studies and sharing of best practices; establishing capacity building to enable sharing open source software development; and supporting e-training. The BEANISH project will help create the basis for developing an international cooperation to apply for EU Framework 6 program related to IST applications.