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 PEOPLE  * Elvin de Kock, previously financial director of ICL Africa, has been appointed MD of the company. * Speaking at the opening of Cape Town’s Bandwidth Barn, Alec Erwin, SA’s minister of trade and industry (DTI) stressed the DTI’s readiness to accept the project into its sector partnership scheme and drew attention also to President Thabo Mbeki’s address to parliament earlier this year, which pinpointed the information and communication technology (ICT) sector as one for major growth and job opportunity generation for the country’s economy. * Marc Van Ameringen will be leaving IDRC at the end of July and their South African office will close in September. Marc plans to spend time between South Africa and Ottawa, working as a consultant, writing, and developing some initiatives on trade and the WTO. * US House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Africa Chairman Ed Royce listed the practical benefits of ICT that had accrued to Africa:120 newspapers and news magazines online, a major US health insurer outsourcing work to Ghana, a West African womens fishing co-op with 7000 members checking prices on the web, democracy activists using e-mail and medical students in Senegal being instructed by doctors from Belgium using a video link. * Oumou Sy, Senegalese fashion designer and founder of ISP Metissacana, is in France raising funds for the building of the Banco-Donadji’s school in Koulikoro Mali and to arrange cyber-twinning with French schools
The Commonwealth Business Council is to hold its next E-Business conference in Johannesburg to follow up its previous conference in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2000. The conference will be held on 18-20 June 2001 at the Sandton Sun Hotel, Johannesburg The focus of this conference will be the transition from a manual to electronic business environment. The conference seeks to understand these transformations and how businesses are being affected in the Commonwealth. But not just businesses in the Commonwealth.Governments are being affected by these transformations as well. The question in the minds of government and business leaders and decision makers is how best can businesses and government prepare themselves. For further details contact: Denise Garwood (denise@aitecafrica.com) ICTs and DEVELOPMENT: SEPTEMBER UK WORKSHOP Richard Heeks is proposing to organise a sessional workshop on the theme ‘ICTs and Development’ within the 2001 UK Development Studies Association, to be held in Manchester on 10-12 September. The workshop will aim to review current work on ICTs and development and, where appropriate, to integrate that work with frameworks and thinking from the long-standing ‘information systems and development’ domain. The workshop therefore seeks papers drawing on recent/current research and action projects on ICTs and development (such as those funded by DFID, World Bank, UNDP and others).It also seeks papers that draw on and/or develop IS and development thinking, especially as it relates to ‘eDevelopment’. Presentations on ‘work in progress’ will be considered, and the structure of the workshop will aim to provide space for discussion. If you are interested in presenting a paper at the workshop, please send a 200-word abstract by 30 June 2001 to myself (richard.heeks@man.ac.uk) AND to the main conference administration (dsa2001@man.ac.uk).Full papers will be due by 17 August.It is envisaged that the workshop will span one day of the conference, although time allocated can be amended according to the number of accepted papers/presentations. Further details about the Development Studies Association conference, including a booking form, can be found at: http://www.man.ac.uk/idpm/dsa01.html Please note that funds are not currently available to support attendance of presenters, who will need to arrange for travel, accommodation and conference fees.
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