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Date: Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 2:44 PM<br>Subject: IST-Africa 2012 - Advance Programme / Online Registration<br>To: <a href="mailto:secretariat@ist-africa.org">secretariat@ist-africa.org</a><br><br><br><u></u>
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<div><font face="Arial">------------------------------------<br><b>IST-Africa 2012
Conference<br>09 - 11 May 2012, Dar es Salaam,
Tanzania<br></b>--------------------------------------<br> <br>Dear
Colleague,</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Hosted by the Government of Tanzania through
the Tanzania National Commission for Science and Technology (COSTECH), Supported
by the European Commission and African Union Commission, IST-Africa 2012 will
take place in Dar es Salaam, 09 - 11 May 2012.<br> <br>Part of the
IST-Africa Initiative, which is supported by the European Commission under the
ICT Theme of Framework Programme 7 (FP7), IST-Africa 2012 is the seventh in an
Annual Conference Series which brings together 500 senior representatives from
leading government, commercial and research organisations around the world to
identify opportunities for international research collaboration between Europe
and Africa under FP7 and bridge the Digital Divide by sharing knowledge,
experience, lessons learnt and good practice. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">The IST-Africa Initiative and IST-Africa 2012
directly supports the 8th Africa-EU Strategic Partnership (Science, Information
Society, Space), the African Ministerial Council on Science and Technology
(AMCOST) and the Consolidated Plan of Action for the African Regional Action
Plan on the Knowledge Economy (ARAPKE).<br> <br>IST-Africa 2012 will
provide a world-class international forum to showcase existing research activity
and research capacity across Africa and Europe. IST-Africa 2012 will focus on
the Role of ICT for Africa's Development and specifically on Applied ICT
research topics addressing major societal and economic challenges, which is part
of the European Commission's ICT Theme of FP7. The Conference Programme combines
strategic keynote presentations, technical and policy papers, case studies,
workshops, an exhibition and social activities. This is complemented by an
international Exhibition. <br> <br>The Advance Programme for IST-Africa
2012 is available online and conference registration is open. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br>Please note that presenters should completed
payment registration by 09 March and Early Bird registration fee is available up
to 14 March. <br>Please circulate this email to colleagues who may be interested
in participating.<br> <br>--------------------------------------<br>ADVANCE
PROGRAMME<br>--------------------------------------</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">The Advance Programme is available online at
<a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/default.asp?page=programme" target="_blank">http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/default.asp?page=programme</a>
and consists of over 140 presentations from 39 countries in 40 parallel
sessions. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">The Advance Programme brochure can be downloaded
from <br><a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/files/ISTAfrica2012_AdvanceProgramme.pdf" target="_blank">http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/files/ISTAfrica2012_AdvanceProgramme.pdf</a><a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2011/files/ISTAfrica2011_AdvanceProgramme.pdf" target="_blank"></a><br>
<br>IST-Africa
2012 focuses on the Role of ICT for Africa's Development and specifically on
Applied ICT research topics in the areas of eHealth, Technology Enhanced
Learning, eInfrastructures, Living Labs, Digital Libraries, Open Source
Software, ICT for Inclusion, ICT for Environmental Risk Management and
eGovernment and eDemocracy. <br> <br>In the context of focusing on the Role
of ICT for Africa's Development, the Opening Plenary on Wednesday 09 May
features a high level dialogue on Implementation of the 8th Africa-EU Strategic
Partnership on Science, Information Society and Space. The Closing Plenary on
Friday 11 May focuses on Initiatives Supporting Development of Regional S&T.
Plenary speakers will be published during February.<br></font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">IST-Africa is organising a pre-conference workshop
focused on Living Labs on Tuesday 08 May. </font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Registration
- Presenter Deadline - 09 March / Early Bird delegate deadline - 16
March<br>----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br> <br>Please
remember that it is necessary for all presenters in the Programme to have
completed online registration and payment by 09 March.<br> <br>Early Bird
Delegate Fees are available until 16 March 2011. Further details in relation to
registration is available at<br><a href="http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/default.asp?page=registration" target="_blank">http://www.ist-africa.org/Conference2012/default.asp?page=registration</a>
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<div><font face="Arial">It is necessary for each delegate to register
online individually. If you already have log in details for the IST-Africa
portal, please use the same log in details for conference registration so that
all transactions are saved to one profile. If a colleague is completing
conference registration on your behalf, please ensure that they use your
existing log in details.<br> <br></font><font face="Arial"><br><i>This targeted communication is brought to you by the IST-Africa
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working days. Our sincere apologies for any inconvenience
caused.</i><br> <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>IST-Africa 2012
Organising Committee<br>Email: <a href="mailto:secretariat@IST-Africa.org" target="_blank">secretariat@IST-Africa.org</a> <br><a href="http://www.IST-Africa.org/Conference2012" target="_blank">www.IST-Africa.org/Conference2012</a>
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