Submitted by Karoline Beronius on Sun, 03/29/2009 - 09:53.
The 1st Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research was held on March 25 and 26 in Brussels. It brought together more than 400 stakeholders; sub-Saharan African and European policy-makers with ICT research organizations, to address ICT research cooperation between sub-Saharan Africa, the Caribbean and Europe. Dr. Afzal Sher, Director SPIDER, participated in the first panel roundtable discussion Africa-EU Cooperation on ICT: from Research to Deployment.