Concertation Meeting #3

27 September 2007

Beaulieu Centre, European Commission, BrusselS

Welcome Address

The EuroAfrica-ICT initiative: achievements & roadmap
Karine Valin
Managing Director, Orionis & Project Coordinator, START (EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative)

Opening Address

EU-Africa cooperation on ICT: recent developments
Jean-François Soupizet
Head of the International Relations Unit
DG Information Society & Media (InfSo), European Commission

Keynote Addresses

Science in service of society: STI & Wealth creation in Africa
Sospeter Muhongo
Director, Regional Office for Africa International Council for Science (ICSU), South Africa

Success factors in FP7: industrial partner view
Joachim Schaper
Vice President EMEA, SAP Research, Germany

ICT for sustainable development
Kwame O. Boateng
Kwame Nkrumah University of Science & Technology (KNUST), Ghana

EU-Africa Cooperation: Latest Developments

Chairman:
Roger Torrenti
CEO, Orionis & Project Advisor, START (EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative)

Recent developments within DG DEV
Gaëlle Lemaire
Policy Officer, DG DEV , European Commission

Recent developments within DG RESEARCH
Fadila Boughanemi
Policy Officer, DG RESEARCH, European Commission

Recent developments within DG INFSO
Thierry Devars
Policy Officer, DG INFSO (International Relations Unit), European Commission

The EuroAfrica-ICT Manifest

Chairman:
Roger Torrenti
CEO, Orionis & Project Advisor, START (EuroAfrica-ICT Initiative)

EU-Africa Cooperation: Retained FP7 Project Proposals

Chairman:
Karine Valin
Managing Director of Orionis & START Project Coordinator

IST-Africa 2008 – 2009
Miriam Cunningham
COO of IIMC Ltd & Project Coordinator of IST-Africa

The CAAST-Net Project
Andy Cherry
S&T Advisor of the Africa Unit of ACU & Project Coordinator of CAAST-Net

The Digital World Project
Roland Burger
CEO of Digilab & Project Coordinator of Digital World

The Floss Include Project
Rishab Aiyer Ghosh
Programme Leader at the University of Maastricht & Project Coordinator of Floss Include

From START to EuroAfriCa-ICT
Karine Valin
Managing Director of Orionis & Project Coordinator of EuroAfriCa-ICT

EU-Africa Cooperation: EC member states

Chairman:
Thierry Devars
Project Officer, DG INFSO (International Relations Unit), European Commission

Status & Perspectives of the Swedish-Africa ICT Cooperation
Afzal Sher
Director of SPIDER (Swedish Programme for ICT in Developing Regions), Sweden

Status & Perspectives of The Netherlands-Africa ICT Cooperation
Deem Vermeulen
Programme Manager of IICD (International Institute for Communications in Development), The Netherlands

Status & Perspectives of the Finland-South Africa ICT Cooperation
Jyrki Pulkkinen
Senior Adviser, Information Society for Development of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, Finland

Status & Perspectives of the German-Africa ICT Cooperation
Balthas Seibold
Senior Project Manager, ICT for development of InWEnt (Capacity Building International), Germany

Status & Perspectives of the French-Africa ICT Cooperation
Patrice Cayré
Permanent Representative to the European Union of IRD (Institut de Recherche pour le Développement), France