IST-Africa 2010 Conference & Exhibition

19 - 21 May 2010, Durban, South Africa

Programme

IST-Africa 2010 Agenda

Updated: 2010-05-11 16:16:27

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Day 1: 19 May 2010

08:00

	Registration

09:00

09:00	Opening Plenary 1a: Opening Plenary
	Opening Remarks Phil Mjwara, Director-General, Department of Science and Innovation, South Africa Opening Remarks Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission, Belgium AUC Address Ahmed Hamdy, African Union Commission, Ethiopia AMCOST Consolidated Plan of Action Hon. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and State for Scientific Research, Egypt

10:15

	Coffee Break : Coffee Break

10:45

10:45	Plenary Session 2a: High-level Round Table on the Implementation of the Africa-EU Partnership on Science, Information Society and Space
	Prof. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education and State for Scientific Research, Egypt (AMCOST Chair) Dr. Phil Mjwara, Director-General, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa Mr Antti Peltomäki, Deputy Director-General, DG Information Society and Media, European Commission Ms. Mamodupi Mohlala, Director-General, Department of Communications, South Africa (tbc) Mr Ahmed Hamdy, Deputy Director, HRST, African Union Commission Mohamed Ben Amor, Director General, CERT, Tunisia, Co-chair JEG8 Ilari Lindy, Advisor, Information Society for Development, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland Prof. John Wood, Chair, European Research Area Board, United Kingdom Joaquim Croac, Head of Vodafone Health Solutions

12:30

	Lunch : Lunch

14:00

14:00	Workshop 3a: 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership - Information Society
	Chair: Mohamed Ben Amor, CERT, Tunisia Co-Chair: Ilari Lindy, SAIS II, Belgium
	P8/Information Society Lighthouse Projects: Status of Implementation & Remaining Challenges Policy Developments regarding African Regional Priorities and Programmes in the ICT Domain Available Financing Instruments and Financial Perspectives

14:00	Session 3b: eGovernment - Services
	Chair: Immo Onuegbu, Ministry of Education, Namibia
	Balancing Security and Privacy in eGovernment Services James Clarke, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland Mobile Government for Improved Public Service Provision in South Africa Mzomuhle Nkosi, CSIR, South Africa Proposed Information Access Network Architecture for Government Information and Services: Progress Report Lerato Lerato, University of Stellenbosch, Lesotho Embracing e-Government in Service Delivery and Business to People Through Libraries: A Case for Kenya Emily NG'ENO, Moi University, Kenya The HAE Bottom-Up Model (HAE-BUM): Envisages the Enhancement of Development and Strengthen e-Governance or e-Government Implementation Systems Jameson Mbale, University of Namibia, Namibia

14:00	Session 3c: Technology Enhanced Learning
	Chair: Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
	Teaching and Learning with New Technology - A Tough Nut to Crack Jacqueline Batchelor, University of Johannesburg, South Africa Sustainable, Scalable and Affordable Mobile Learning Service for Formal Education Riitta Vänskä, NOKIA, Finland Metaschool.cz - Towards Teacher Competencies with Web 2.0 Karel Charvat, WirelessInfo, Czech Republic Google Docs and Skype for a Low Bandwidth Virtual Classroom for Developing Countries Hannah Thinyane, Rhodes University, South Africa The SANTED Virtual Classroom Project: A Case Study Kauna Mufeti, University of Namibia, Namibia

14:00	Workshop 3d: ICT R&D Innovation Strategy
	Chair: Isaac Maredi, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
	ICT R&D and Innovation: Supporting Key Government Outcomes Isaac Maredi, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa South African National Cyberinfrastructure, the Knowledge Triangle and Innovation Colin Wright, Meraka Institute, South Africa The SAP Meraka UTD Public Private Partnership De Wet Naude, SAP, South Africa Open Source and Open Standards: A Sustainable Innovation Strategy for African Parliaments Flavio Zeni, UNDESA, Kenya

14:00	Workshop 3e: Emerging e-Infrastructures for Science in Sub-Saharan Africa
	Chair: Bruce Becker, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
	Development and Status of the South African National Grid Bruce Becker, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa High Performance Computing to Grid Computing at UFS Albert van Eck, University of the Free State, South Africa Policy Engagement in e-Infrastructure from the BELIEF Experience Simon Taylor, Brunel University, United Kingdom

15:30

	Coffee Break : Coffee Break

16:00

16:00	Workshop 4a: 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership - Information Society
	Chair: Mohamed Ben Amor, CERT, Tunisia Co-Chair: Ilari Lindy, SAIS II, Belgium
	Showcase of EU and African MSs Funded Activities; Proposals for New Activities Advancing the Information Society Agenda Themba Phiri, Department of Communications, South Africa Finland STI Programmes in South Africa and Southern Africa Helena Tapper, GESCI, Kenya ICT Initiatives in Mauritius Dan Faugoo, National Computer Board, Mauritius How to Bridge the Digital Divide in Africa? Case Studies in Zambia Lenka Ptáčková Melicharová, Deputy Minister of Interior (EU Affairs), Czech Republic ICT Initiatives in Mozambique Augusto Nunes, INTIC, Mozambique ICT Initiatives in Egypt Inas Fateem, Ministry of Communications & IT, Egypt ICT Initiatives in Botswana Oabona Monngakgotla, Ministry of Infrastructure, Science and Technology, Botswana

16:00	Session 4b: eGovernment - Assessment
	Chair: Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University , Sweden
	Are e-Government Investments Delivering against Expected Payoffs? Evidence from the United Kingdom and South Africa Rennie Naidoo, Wits, South Africa Measuring the Public Value of e-Government: Methodology of a South African Case Study Carsten Friedland, SAP Research, Germany Public Decision Making Support: A Developing Country Perspective Love Ekenberg, Stockholm University , Sweden A Conceptual Ontology for E-government Monitoring of Development Projects in Sub Saharan Africa Jean Vincent Fonou Dombeu, Vaal University of Technology, South Africa A Critical Discourse on the ICT Strategies of the Center for Innovation, Provincial Government of the Western Cape Steve Vosloo, Shuttleworth Foundation, South Africa

16:00	Session 4c: Technology Enhanced Learning - Integrating New Elements
	Chair: Wallace Taylor, TISI - The Information Society Institute, South Africa
	A Pragmatic Framework for Integrating ICT into Education in South Africa Adele Botha, CSIR, South Africa Harnessing Available Technology for Secondary School Education in Uganda Vincent Kizza, Open Learning Exchange Uganda, Uganda Indigenous African Artefacts: Can they Serve as Tangible Programming Objects? Andrew Cyrus Smith, CSIR, South Africa Working for my Dreams - A Tanzanian OLPC Experience Marcus Duveskog, University of Eastern Finland, Sweden Science Diffusion as a Form of Cooperation Antonio Jose Batel Anjo, Osuwela, Mozambique

16:00	Workshop 4d: SAFIPA - Disruptive Innovation in Emerging Markets - A Catalyst for Reducing Poverty and Improving Lives?
	Chair: Kristiina Lahde, Saliens Ltd, Finland Co-Chair: Darelle van Greunen, Nelson Mandela University, South Africa
	Position 1: How are emerging market companies forging ahead of the competition? Emerging markets have low worldwide costs, appealing products, modern facilities, and ambitious leaders going for them. Position 2: Emerging markets are generating a wave of disruptive product and process innovations that are helping established companies and a new generation of entrepreneurs to achieve new price-performance levels for a range of globally traded goods and services. Position 3: Western companies should not have to adapt old business models and build distinctive capabilities in the low-income segments of emerging economies. There is no such thing as the Bottom of the Pyramid. Position 4: "Disruptive innovation" is only applicable to describe trends in the rapidly changing worlds of telecoms and pharmaceuticals. Digital and photocopying technologies are examples of disruptive innovations in emerging economies. Panelists include Kimmo Viljamaa, Advansis Ltd, Finland Stephan Lambrecht, Venture Solutions Discussion

16:00	Workshop 4e: Emerging e-Infrastructures for Science in Sub-Saharan Africa
	Chair: Bruce Becker, Meraka Institute, CSIR, South Africa
	Development of an EUGridPMA-accredited Certificate Authority for the South African National Grid Tarirai Chani, Monash South Africa, South Africa Long-term Sustainability of Emergent e-Infrastructures Valeria Ardizzone, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sez. Catania, Italy GILDA: A Model of t-Infrastructure for Dissemination and Training Valeria Ardizzone, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare Sez. Catania, Italy Considerations of User Engagement in New Site Designs Andrew Lewis, University of Cape Town, South Africa

17:30

	End of Parallel Sessions

18:00

	Networking Reception

Disclaimer: This is the Advance Programme, which is subject to change. The Final Programme will be published in March, following receipt of all final papers.

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