[WSIS CS-Plenary] World Information Technology Forum

[Dr. Francis MUGUET]

FYI

http://www.witfor.org
August 22-24
IFIP World Information Technology Forum 2007
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia


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http://allafrica.com/stories/200703160774.html

*Country to Host 'World Technology Forum' Country Needs $800,000 in 
Preparing Forum*

*The Daily Monitor* (Addis Ababa)
NEWS
March 16, 2007
Posted to the web March 16, 2007

By Endale Assefa
Addis Ababa

Ethiopia will host the World Information Technology Forum in August this 
year, the Ethiopian Information and Communication Technology Development 
Agency (EICTDA) announced yesterday.

Speaking at a symposium, EICTDA, Director General Debretsion 
Gebremichael said the Agency has been facilitating the necessary 
accommodations and reservations for the participants and has provided up 
to date information about developments of conference organizations.

The purpose of the regional forum to be held under the theme: ICT for 
development and prosperity', he said, was to help implement information 
development strategies and projects in developing countries.

The Director General said
the up coming forum is set to take the plan of action adopted by the 
World Summit on the Information Society's (WSIS)
as a step forward by converting policy statements to actual, 
implementing projects t
hat should help developing countries to achieve the UN Millennium 
Development Goals.

He added that his agency has so far achieved to network eight 
Universities found in the country, set the plasma TV for High Schools 
and that, currently, it is working on a new genre of treatment for 
patients through the net, called Tele-medicine.

Tele medicine is an initiative of Indian President, Dr. A.P.J Abdul 
Kalam with an aim to help patients receive the appropriate medical 
treatment through the internet.

It is a technology whereby patients here are directly diagnosed and 
obtain subsequent medication from a World class Indian Institute which 
specializes in the area.

The Agency has already started Tele Medicine at the Black Lion Hospital 
and in region 4, Nekemt Town as part of the pilot project.

Asked about the average cost needed for a patient to undergo 
Tele-medicine treatment, the director said the agency will cover the 
cost he said estmiated at 3000 USD.

The World Information Forum is to be held for the third time and a total 
estimated cost of 800,000 USD is needed to prepare the forum here, the 
agency has said.

Various Ministries, Corporations, Agencies and NGOs are expected to 
sponsor the forum, Debretsion added.


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Francis F. MUGUET Ph.D 

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KNIS lab.  Director 
"Knowledge Networks & Information Society" (KNIS)
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World Summit On the Information Society (WSIS)
Civil Society Working Groups
Scientific Information :  http://www.wsis-si.org  chair
Patents & Copyrights   :  http://www.wsis-pct.org co-chair
Financing Mechanismns  :  http://www.wsis-finance.org web

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WTIS initiative: http://www.wtis.org
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