Awareness Workshop
17 & 18 June, 2008
Pretoria, South Africa
Welcome Address
Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, the Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa & EuroAfriCa-ICT Project Partner
Introduction to the EuroAfriCa-ICT Project
Karine Valin
Managing Director, Orionis, France & EuroAfriCa-ICT Project Coordinator
Opening Addresses: Opportunities, Successes and Challenges of Collaboration in the Global ICT R&D in Africa
Chair: Mmboneni Muofhe
Director, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
Mrs Kagiso Chikane
Centre Manager, The Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa & EuroAfrica-ICT Project Partner
Eva Bursvik
Trade Adviser, Delegation of the European Commission, South Africa
Dr Edmund Katiti
Policy and Regulatory Advisor, NEPAD, eAfrica Commission
Marjorie Pyoos
Deputy Director General, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
Introduction to FP7 and ICT
Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, the Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa, EuroAfriCa-ICT Project Partner for Southern Africa & FP7/ICT National Contact Point
Keynote Addresses - Research Capacity and Challenges in sub-Saharan Africa
Chair: Peter McGrath
Acting programme officer, TWAS, the academy of sciences for the developing world, Italy
Mmboneni Muofhe
Director, Department of Science and Technology, South Africa
The National System of Innovation Review in South Africa
Dr Idris Rai
Associate Professor, Makerere University, Uganda
Research Capacity and Challenges in Uganda
Zauria Saifodine
Head, ICT Policy Implementation Technical Unit (UTICT), Mozambique
Research Capacity and Challenges in Mozambique
John Sifani
Deputy Director, Ministry of Education, National Research, Science Technology and Innovation, Namibia
Research Capacity and Challenges in Namibia
Successes within the Framework Programme and Strategies in approaching FP7 and S&T cooperation between Europe and sub-Saharan Africa
Chair:Prof. Venansius Baryamureeba,
Dean, Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University, Uganda
Rudi de Louw
Senior Researcher, SAP Research Pretoria, South Africa
IP FP6: The C@R Living Lab Project
Ernest Ngassam
Senior Researcher, SAP Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa
Digital World Forum: Opportunities of Low Cost Technologies for Business Development
Segopotso Moshapo
Researcher, SAP Meraka Unit for Technology Development, South Africa
MOBEPAC Project: Italy/South Africa Bilateral
The Experience in the FP7 process / How to build an FP7 Proposal
Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, the Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa & EuroAfriCa-ICT Project Partner
How to build an FP7 Proposal
Cristina Pinto
Manager, Business Development & Commercialisation, Wits Enterprise, South Africa
The Experiences and Lessons Learnt in the FP7
ICT Thematic group discussions
Birds-of-a-Feather approach to facilitate networking and discussion on specific thematic areas.
Chair: Johan Eksteen
Manager, Technology Research Programme, the Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa & EuroAfriCa-ICT Project Partner
Closing session: the Way Forward
Kagiso Chikane
Centre Manager, Meraka Institute of CSIR, South Africa
Lab visits to the Meraka Institute
- Digital Doorway
- Singazenzela
- Mesh Networking
