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Programme
Last update 13/12/2010
Day one - 9th December 2010
Erina4Africa welcome cocktail - 6:15 pm - 8:30 pm
Day two - 10th December 2010 - Investigating Best Practices for e-Infrastructure Application Development
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Session Title
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8:30
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Bjorn Pehrson - Research Leader, School of ICT, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
Linking Policies to Applications - Overview & Existing Synergies |
8:45-10:45
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Part one
Session Chairs
Simon J.E. Taylor - Coordinator of the ERINA4Africa EU-funded Project, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Boubakar Barry - Coordinator, Research & Education Networking Unit, Association of African Universities (AAU), Ghana
Rapporteur: Margaret Ngwira - Board Member, the UbuntuNet Alliance, Malawi
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Simon J.E. Taylor - Coordinator of the ERINA4Africa EU-funded Project, Brunel University, United Kingdom (20')
Investigating African e-Infrastructure Applications of the Future: Results of the ERINA4Africa Workshops 2010 |
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Isabel Matranga - Leader of ERINA4Africa WP on the Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA (20')
ERINA4Africa Major Outcomes: e-Infrastructure Best Practices and Foresight Study Results |
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Americo Muchanga - Regulator, Instituto Nacional das Comunicaçöes de Moçambique (INCM), Mozambique (15')
Local and Global - the role of the Regulator in facilitating Research and Education Networking |
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Vasilis Koulolias - Executive Director of Gov2U and Coordinator of the Africa4ALL EU-funded Project, Greece (15')
Africa4all - The Parliamentary Initiative
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Dibungi T. Kalenda - Coordinator Eb@le and Professor, Centre d'Etudes des Substances Naturelles d'Origine Végétale (CESNOV), Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
University of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo (15')
In Silico search for Phytomedicines |
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Louise Karamage - Rwanda Education Commons, Rwanda (15')
Digital Education Revolution in Rwanda: the Case of Rwanda Education Common |
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Cheikh Tidiane Toure - Head of the Surgery Department of the Faculty of Medicine, Odonto-Stomatology at the Cheikh Anta Dioop University, Senegal (15')
Telemedecine in Africa - Status & Perspectives |
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Q&A Session |
10:45-11:45
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Coffee & Tea break
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Part two
Session Chairs
Bjorn Pehrson - Research Leader, School of ICT, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
Frederick F. Tusubira - CEO of UbuntuNet, Board Member of TENET, & Member of the Advisory Panel to the Research and Education Networking Unit of the AAU
Rapporteur: Simon J.E. Taylor - Coordinator of the ERINA4Africa EU-funded Project, Brunel University, United Kingdom
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| 11:15-12:15 |
Robert Klapisch - President, Sharing Knowledge Foundation
Pioneering the Future Internet through addressing geographic issues |
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Nodumo Dhlamini - Program Manager (ICT), Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (RUFORUM), Uganda
RUFORUM - Theegional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture
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Antonio Parodi - Project Leader of CIMA Research Foundation, Italy
ICT-based hydrometeorology science and natural disasters prediction and mitigation in Africa
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Hannu Saarenmaa - Finnish Museum of Natural History & Francis Oguya - National Museums of Kenya
North-south data sharing using the e-infrastructure of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) |
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Q&A Session |
| 12:15-1:15 |
Roundtable discussion - Linking Policies to Applications - Recommendations & Action Plan
Session Chair
Simon Taylor - Coordinator of the ERINA4Africa EU-funded Project, Brunel University, United Kingdom
Rapporteur
Bjorn Pehrson - Research Leader, School of ICT, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
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- Margaret Ngwira - Board Member, the Ubuntunet Alliance
- Boubakar Barry - Coordinator, Research & Education Networking Unit, Association of African Universities (AAU), Ghana
- Iman Auel Maaly Abdelrahman - Assitant Professor, Dept of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Khartoum, Sudan
- Americo Muchanga - Regulator, Instituto Nacional das Comunicaçöes de Moçambique (INCM), Mozambique
- Bjorn Pehrson - Research Leader, School of ICT, KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Sweden
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Q&A Session |
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