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Regional meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Task Force on Cyberlaws, Tanzania, 25-27 October 2011
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UNCTAD Information and Communications Technology Policy Review of Egypt presented to the Minister of Communications and Information Technology (4 July 2011).
The Minister declared that the recommendations contained in the review will be valuable inputs to the next ICT strategy of Egypt. |
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Training course on measuring ICT access and use by households and businesses for Arabic countries - Organized jointly by the ITU, UNCTAD, and in cooperation with the AITRS, Amman, Jordan, 30 May - 9 June |
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UNCTAD at the WSIS Forum 2011 - Dialogue on mobile money solutions for small enterprises, Geneva, 16-20 May 2011
UNCTAD, FAO and ITC organised a joint session on the opportunities that mobile technology offers. The first part was devoted to e-business and focused on how mobile money can support small enterprises
The interactive dialogue noted that a wide range of mobile money services are increasingly being offered which offer potential solutions to small enterprises. These include mobile transfers and payments as well as more elaborated financial services such as micro-insurance and micro-finance.
Developing countries are leading the exponential growth of mobile money deployments. Currently, there are 51 mobile money deployments in Africa and 37 in LDCs. However, not all countries have been equally successful in the deployment of such services. Participants identified key factors as explanations to variations in the uptake and coverage of mobile money services.
A summary of the ensuing discussion is available here.
More details on the WSIS Forum 2011 are available at http://www.wsis.org/forum |
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UNGIS Special Event at the LDC IV Conference: ICTs in LDCs - opportunities and challenges, Istanbul, 12 May 2011
UNCTAD, jointly with UNESCO, ITU and UNECA, will organize an UNGIS special event during the LDC IV Conference. It will take place at the Lutfi Kirdar Convention and Exhibition Centre, from 13h00 to 15h00 |
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Regional meeting of the East African Community (EAC) Task Force on Cyberlaws followed by a briefing of Members of Parliament of Kenya on Cyberlaws , Mombasa, Kenya
The UNCTAD-supported process to promote cyberlaw harmonization in East Africa will continue at a meeting on 28-30 March 2011 in Mombasa (Kenya). The EAC Task Force on Cyberlaw will discuss the next phase of cyberlaw implementation in EAC partner States. This regional meeting will be followed on 31 March to 1 April by a briefing of Members of Parliament of Kenya on selected legal and regulatory issues relating to e-commerce, m-commerce and the EAC Cyberlaw framework. |
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Pre-event for the LDC IV Conference: Digital Inclusion for Least Developed Countries, Geneva, 8-9 March 2011 |
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UNCTAD at the ICTD 2010, London, 13-16 December 2010 |
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Delivery of a distance learning course on the Legal Aspects of E-Commerce for the Latin American Economic System (SELA) countries, 1-26 November 2010 |
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High-level workshop on “Measuring ICT indicators to Achieve the WSIS Objectives in Africa”, Hammamet, 10 November 2010 |
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Launch of the Information Economy Report 2010: ICT, Enterprises and Poverty Alleviation, Geneva, 14 October 2010 |
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Cours de formation sur la mesure de l'accès des ménages et des entreprises aux TIC et de l'utilisation de ces technologies, Addis Abeba, 11-22 October 2010 |
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International Seminar on ICT Statistics, Seoul, 19-21 July 2010 |
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First meeting of the East African Community Taskforce on Cyberlaws, Phase II, Kigali, 15-17 June 2010 |
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WSIS Forum 2010, 10-14 May 2010, Geneva, Switzerland |
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