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IST-Africa Workshop at European Conference October 2012
• Parastatal body under the aegis of Ministry of ICT responsible for the development and promotion of the ICT sector
• Objectives & Strategies of the NCB o E-Powering People by spreading ICT Culture and Literacy and
promoting ICT for Social Development
o E-Powering the Public Sector by participating in eGovernment (www.gov.mu) initiatives, setting up e-Services and managing the Government Online Centre (GOC)
o E-Powering Businesses by facilitating the development of the ICT industry and promoting entrepreneurship in ICT
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Mauritius Bio-informatics Bio-informatics :Study algorithms used in Bioinformatics, to contribute new algorithms, to study how Bioinformatics data is stored and accessed throughout the world, and to look into how Mauritius can contribute to Bioinformatics Data Banks. Can be mapped to Challenge 5 – ICT for Health
University of Mauritius Efficient Computing Efficient ComputingPropose computer-based solutions that improve the productivity of the individual and, consequently, improve the effectiveness of the organisation the individual belongs to.Can be mapped to Challenge 8 ICT for Creativity and Learning
University of Mauritius Network of the Future
IPV6Perform verifications on how the performance of different network-based applications can be improved using IPV6, how the QoS support available in IPV6 can be exploited and also to look into ways of helping the deployment of IPV6 in MauritiusChallenge 1 Pervasive and Trusted Network
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Mauritius
Context Awareness Context AwarenessInvestigate how the use of context-awareness can improve the lives of users and how context-awareness can be put to the service of the Mauritian societyChallenge 5 – ICT for health
University of Mauritius
Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
Mobile and Ubiquitous ComputingInvestigate the human, social, technical, hardware and software issues involved with mobile and ubiquitous computingChallenge 1 – Digital enterprise
University of Mauritius and Mauritius Research Council
Social Media A Study of Online Social Networks in Mauritius: Impact on Secondary EducationUsage pattern of online social networks among young people and the impact on their education and social life(June 2011 to August 2012)Challenge 1 - ICT-2013.1.6 Connected and Social Media(Call 10)
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Mauritius
Environment Study of Waste Collection Systems in two Local Authorities
Assess on a pilot basis the current waste collection facilities in for a particular Municipality and District Council, in order to formulate guidelines for the National recommendations pertaining waste collection and transportation, for the Ministry of Local Government and Outer Islands. Ongoing
Challenge 6 – ICT for Low Carbon Economy
University of Mauritius
Image recognition Pose and light invariant Face and Ear Recognition System
Research work will concentrate on problems related to face and ear recognition systems. Ongoing
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Mauritius and Mauritius Research Council
Health A Secure Data Access Model for the Mauritian Healthcare Service
Study the applicability of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), supported by Context-Based Access Control (CBAC), to perform control access to patient data in a typical healthcare service. Development of a prototype so as to enable to researchers to be exposed to practical issues that crop up in the application of such concepts to real-life data (November 2010 to February 2013)
Challenge 5 – ICT for Health(call 10)
University of Mauritius
Health Development of an open platform for “Volunteer thinking”
How problems related to skin lesions in developing regions can be applied with crowd-based analysis to detect skin cancers as well as other diseases. Funded by International Development Research Centre (IDRC), a Canadian funding agency. Started Jul 2012 Ongoing
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
Mauritius Research Council
Energy Development of a Locally Designed Wind turbine TechnologyDeveloping a small low cost wind turbine locally and for the local harsh conditions with a view to power up individual houses with a low to medium income or as a complement to the electricity grid systems. Ongoing
Challenge 6 – ICT for Low Carbon Economy (Call 11)
Mauritius Research Council
Technology‐Enhanced
Learning
Evaluation of importance of corporate e-learning in providing a competitive edge to Mauritian companiesWhether companies in Mauritius are willing to adopt e learning as a supplement to corporate classroom training as well as providing insights into priority areas and training needs for e learning in Mauritius.Challenge 8 – ICT for creativity and Learning (Call 11)
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Technology, Mauritius
IT Security/Network Intrusion forensics
The research aimed at providing a solution to code/data confidentiality of mobile agent based on an adapted implementation of the Bell-Lapadula model for access control. Ongoing (Sep 2005 to Apr 2013)ICT-2013.1.5 Trustworthy ICT (call 10)
University of Technology, Mauritius
IT Security/Network Security framework to combat attacks On SIP-based VoIP networks
Security framework will be developed and will focus on detecting some of the VoIP attacks and classification of these attacks as real or automated scenarios by using the concepts of pattern recognition method. Ongoing (may
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Technology, Mauritius
Context Awareness A technology independent framework for partitioning and retracting context awareness
An application partitioning and retraction framework is being proposed for next generation applications that will have the capabilities to seamlessly partition and retract themselves on multiple computational nodes in a pervasive environment . Ongoing (may 2012 to Sep 2013)
University of Technology, Mauritius
E‐Learning Harnessing the potential of ICT to influence learning of mathematics at the beginning of secondary schooling
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Technology, Mauritius
Energy Energy modeling for sensor networks
To contribute towards enhancing the lifetime of sensor networks.
Callenge 6 – ICT for Low carbon economy(call 11)
University of Technology, Mauritius
Software Engineering Software tool for option pricing
Focus on the development of new numerical schemes for pricing European, American and Asian options under different models. Ongoing (Dec 2008 to Dec 2015)
Software Engineering GPU Computing with iterative solution methods
Using the CPU-GPU computing environment, the optimization of numerical algorithms for solving the large sparse linear systems of algebraic equations generated from the schemes will be investigated.
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start –End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
University of Technology, Mauritius
Software Engineering Performance optimization of database-driven websites
Address the problem of bottleneck present in Relational Database servers by using the new HTML5's web storage capabilities to model a client side query caching mechanism
• Integrated Health Care Information Management System (eHealth)-Launched in 2011-System designed to manage patient records-pilot at 2 hospitals in Windhoek
• Namibia-South Africa Cooperation-Joint Calls for research
Project Title: Communities’ Indigenous Knowledge Management System -2011 (ICT Theme)
Researchers: Dr. Heike Winschiers-Theophilus – Polytechnic of NamibiaDr. Edwin Blake – University of Cape Town, South Africa
• There are a number of initiatives that have being implemented in the six priority areas defined in the polity (education, human capacity development, infrastructure development, regulations and polities development, • The national backbone connects all provincial capitals making it
easier to roll out services;• There are 3 mobile operators in the country, providing access to
information and communications to a wider number of Mozambicans;
• Electronic Transaction Law drafted and being considered by Cabinet
• A number of applications for public service delivery have being developed
• A number of human capacity development programmes are implemented but
• Lack of coordination and monitoring mechanisms impact on abilityto undertake a proper evaluation of what has being done
• There is a total of 43 university level teaching institutions spread throughout the country, 18 of which are public institutions and the remaining 25 are private; and
• There is a total of other 22 institutions, dedicated to research activities only, from which 15 are government institutions and the remaining 7 are either private or NGO’s;
Universidade Eduardo Mondlane (UEM)Universidade Pedagógica (UP)Instituto Superior de Relações Internacionais (ISRI), Instituto Superior de Ciências da SaúdeEscola Superior de Ciências Náuticas (ESCN)Instituto Superior de Contabilidade e Auditoria de Moçambique (ISCAEscola Superior de Jornalismo (ESJ)Instituto Superior da Administração Pública (ISAP)Instituto Superior de Ciências e Tecnologias de Moçambique (ISCTEMInstituto Superior de Transportes e Comunicações (ISUTC)Instituto Superior Politécnico e Universitário (ISPU)Universidade Técnica de Moçambique (UDM)Universidade São Tomás de Moçambique (USTM) Escola Superior de Economia e Gestão (ESEG)Instituto Superior de Formação, Investigação e Ciência (ISFIC) Instituto Superior Monitor (ISM)Instituto Superior de Comunicação e Imagem (ISCIM)Universidade do Índico Instituto Superior Maria Mãe África (ISMMA)Instituto Superior de Gestão, Comércio e Finanças (ISGCOF)
Academia Militar (AM)Universidade Lúrio (UNILURIO)Universidade Mussa Bin Bique (UMBB)
Instituto Superior Politécnico de Songo (ISPS)Instituto Superior Politécnico de Tete(ISPT)Instituto Superior Cristão (ISC) Angónia
Instituto Superior de Artes e Cultura (ISAC), MachavaAcademia de Ciências Policiais (ACIPOL), MichafuteneInstituto Superior de Educação e Tecnologia (ISET) MatutuineInstituto Superior Dom BoscoInstituto Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão (ISTEG) Universidade NachingweyaInstituto Superior de Ciências, Tecnologia e ProfissionalInstituto Superior de Estudos Nativos e DesenvolvimentoInstituto Superior de Estudos de Defesa
Universidade Zambeze (UniZambeze), SofalaUniversidade Católica de Moçambique (UCM)Universidade Jean Piaget de Moçambique (UJPM)Universidade Adventista de Moçambique
Instituto Superior Politécnico de Gaza (ISPG)Instituto Superior de Gestão de Negócios
• Evaluation of ICT capacity of Government institutions to implement eGovernment initiatives and establish the level of implementation of ICT Policy and its implementation strategy;
• ICT solutions that can be applied to control sea and space areas that belong to the country;
• Lack of coordination and harmonization of ICT initiatives
• Need for Monitoring and Evaluation to improve quality
• Necessary to compliment new systems with appropriate training for the staff who will use these new systems
• Civil Servants who are responsible for using eGovernmentsystems must be actively involved during the design, implementation and testing phases to ensure acceptance
• Need to develop local project management capacity to manage systems after donor commitment ends
• Lesotho is located in Southern Africa, an enclave of South Africa• Area is 30,355 km• Population is 1.9 million• Two official languages• Electrical Power Prdn 90%• Export Partners US, Belgium
Institutions in Lesotho dealing with ICT-related activities
• National University of Lesotho• Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
• Communication Networks and Applications• Artificial Intelligence and Human Language
Technologies• Information Systems
• Lesotho College of Education• Department of Agricultural Research• Ministry of Health and Social Welfare• Ministry of Education and Training• Ministry of Communications, Science and Technology
LEFA ELLIOT THAMAEDepartment of Science and Technology in LesothoPrivate Bag A23Maseru 100LesothoSouthern AfricaTel +266 22323763Cell +266 62864957Email Address [email protected]@gmail.com
• Underdeveloped ICT Infrastructure• High Telecommunication costs• Unstable and unreliable power• Out-dated ICT Laws• Underdeveloped research and development capacity in ICT
• Where we are • As a signatory to the NEPAD Protocol, Malawi has:
• Developed a submarine and terrestrial broadband network• Built a fibre cable infrastructure connecting Malawi & Mozambique• Expanded the fibre infrastructure inside the country• Has a high mobile penetration• Has waived tax on the import of computers and accessories
• National Digital Repository (NDR)– Funded by International Development Studies (UK)
– Implemented by MALICO ( Malawi Libraries & Information Consortium) members to:
• Facilitate the widening access of development information by collecting and disseminating local content
• Increase accessibility and visibility of Malawian research outputs thereby impacting on policy and bring more increase transparency research institutions
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Universities and Other Research Institutions)
Institution Location Type of Institution
Thematic Focus of Research
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start – End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
•Strathmore University •Nairobi •University •eLearning(ICT in Secondary School Education)•Mobile Application Technologies•Open Source Technologies•eHealth•ICT Sustainable and Renewable Energy•eAccessibility and adoption
•Funding agencies:• Hewlett Packard(HP)•The Internet Society(ISOC)•Google•Safaricom
Egerton University Nakuru University •e-Learning •Dam Minitoring System•County online DataBank•BPO•Video Conferencing Project
Funding Agencies •KVDA and Egerton Funded the Dam monitoring System•e-Lerning was Funded by Egerton University and RUFORUM
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Universities and Other Research Institutions)
Institution Location Type of Institution
Thematic Focus of Research
ICT/Engineering Research Activities (Projects, Start – End Dates, Funding Mechanism)
Kenya Medical Research Institute-KEMRI
Nairobi Research Institute
•e-Health•Open source software application
Funding Agencies:•East Africa Community [EAC] & international partners under the East Africa Disease Surveillance Network Project (EAIDSNET)•Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation in partnership with HP (USA). Strengthening data management for HIV/AIDS vaccine trails.
Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology
Juju-Thika University • eAgricultureFarmer Voice Radio
(FVR) Project• open source
software applications
• eLearning
Funding Agency:•American Institutes for Research (AIR)
Kenya Methodist University
Meru University •eHealth•eLearning•open source software applications•Mobile telephony applications
•eHealth - June 2011-June 2014•eLearning - June 2010 – June 2012•open source software applications-2011 – 2013•Mobile telephony applications- June 2011-june 2014
Summary of National ICT Initiatives –Digital Inclusion
• Kenya Education Network (KENET)– a National Research and Education Network that promotes the use
of ICT in Higher Education Institutions in Kenya.
– Aims to interconnect all R&D institutions in Kenya with a cost effective and sustainable private network with high speed access to the global Internet
– 64 KENET member institutions have been provided with affordable and efficient bandwidth.
• Pasha Centers (Digital villages)– A government initiative to diffuse ICT know-how to the rural and
marginalized areas to address regional disparities
– The main objective is to provide Internet access, e-government services and other e-services at the grassroots level via public-private partnerships
Summary of National ICT Initiatives – Digital Inclusion
• Wezesha (enable) initiative – The objective is to provide a financial incentive towards purchasing
a laptop for registered university students.
– The initiative is funded by the World Bank and implemented by the Kenya ICT Board under the KTCIP programme
• Local content grant – Over 25% of Kenyans now have access to the internet
– the government has embarked on develop services and products to reach these millions of Kenyans through this new media.
– Local content grant
– the government is currently running a three-year grant program to support the development of local digital content. Grantees are selected through a Call for Proposal announced annually in June.
• Burundi is a Member of the East African Community (EAC) Bordered by Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Tanzania
• Population of 10.5 million of which 51.7% are working age (15 – 64 years)
• Population is growing at 3.1% and 89% live in rural environments
• Major educational challenges due to limited human & financial resources – Most students will be in school for 10 years (13 in South Africa, 18 in Ireland)
• 30% of GDP and 90% of employment is in agriculture
• Investment in Science, Technology, ICT adoption and Skills development are essential to achieve sustainable socio-economic development
• Identification of key ICT and research challenges based on– Direct engagement with key national stakeholders including
universities, with intervies guided by structured questionnaire
• IST-Africa delivered a series of one day workshops in Bujumbura on FP7 and Adoption of Living Labs– Provided opportunity to engage with public and private sector
stakeholders as well as civil society to learn from their experience
• Encourage national researchers to engage with their peers– Provide feedback to increase professionalism of research papers
• Université du Burundi - Faculté des Sciences• Université Espoir d’Afrique - Faculté des Lettres et des
Sciences (Département d’informatique, option Informatiqueet système de gestion de l’information & Département de la Communication); Faculté d’ingénierie et de Technologie(Département d’Ingénierie en génie et gestion destélécommunications);
• Université Lumière de Bujumbura - Faculté de Communication & Faculté d’Informatique de gestion;
• Université des Grands Lacs - Faculté d’InformatiqueThere are approximately 30,000 students in Higher Education
in Burundi, 11,000 of which attend the University of Burundi.
• ICT related Initiatives are essential to national development
• Available national human & financial ressources are limited
• Re-engagement in bilateral and multilateral cooperation by European Member States and other key stakeholders with Burundi is essential to socio-economic development– Currently Only Belgium is providing technical and financial support
• ICT related Skills transfer and technical secondment is key to building national ICT capacity and a research culture
Augustin Nsabiyumva
Advisor to Minister of Higher Education & Scientific Research
• ICT for Accelerated Development (ICT4AD);- supporting an ICT-led socio-economic development process aimed at transforming Ghana into a middle income, information-rich, and knowledge-based society;
• National Telecom Policy (NTP);-to establish market structures that will be most beneficial to Ghana’s citizens and businesses, and to set in motion the procedures and incentives that will boost the market’s development
A 4 year ruling plan has been developed with an operational life span of the policy between 15 -20 years
***The National STI Policy and Development Plan is also still under construction and yet to be finalized by Parliament for final publishing.
• Department of Computer Science in universities– UG
– KNUST
– UCC
– UDS
– Ashesi University
– GIMPA
– Ghana Telecom University
– IPS
• Council for Scientific and Industrial Research-Institute of Industrial Research, Institute for Scientific and Technological Information, Science and Technology Policy Research Institute
• Ghana-Indian Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (AITI)
• Universities - College of Engineering - KNUST, UG and Ghana Telecom University
• Private Sector Institutions e.g. Ghana ICT Research institute, IPMC, NIIT
Currently the existing ICT infrastructure/services in Ghana include:
• International Connectivity via SAT-3 Submarine Optical Fibre Cable
• 130 installed VSAT nationwide
• 6 cellular telecom operators
• Deployment of broadband wireless (Wimax and wifi wireless systems)
• Establishment of a wide area network called the Research and Educational Network (REN) by World Bank in 2000 to link researchinstitutions and academia
• 130 FM Broadcasting stations
• 1000 km National Fibre Optic Backbone which is being extended to 4000km connecting 23 sites nationwide
• Community Information Centres (CICs) as a means of providing information to the remote communities.
Cameroon is located in Central Africa. surface area of 475,442 square kmIt has a population of 20,000 Million inhabitants, eight public universities, over 80 private institutes of higher education and with several laboratories. Faculty and students are involved in research intense projects at the universities. At the end of each academic year there are at least 1,200 scientific papers and theses produced.
Current ICT Policyo Published in October 2007 by ANTIC with the setup of a Steering Committee and the elaboration of the Policy’s Implementation Plan in 2009o An e-Government strategy developed with support from UNU-IIST (United Nations University, International Institute for Software Technology), its implementation plan under adoption
National Development ProgramCurrent strategy development program :‘Growth and employment strategy paper 2010/2020’, published in August 2009 by MINEPAT (Ministry of Economy, Planning and Regional Development).
National ICT Infrastructure Developmento SAT-3 marine cable inward to territory , Access points: Douala (main one), Limbe (WACS) andKribi (ACE)o National Backbone (over 5000km of fibre optic cable laid down, Financed by the Chinese Government ) : o Linking Cameroon to Chad with fibre optic cable under the Central African Backbone (CAB) projecto VSAT internet also widely usedo Security: National Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), project at the closing stage, donated by the Korean Government o National Internet eXchange Point (IXP), ongoing, financed by the World Banko Ten (10) major television stations and several radio stations.o Tele-centres: Over 50 operational, 117 being put into service, 30 under construction
•Some e-services that are operational:oSIGIPES (online management of government employees);oSYSTAC (Driving Licences Management) managed by Ministry of TransportoSYDONIA (Import & Export Management) managed by the Custom Department, MINFI;oElectoral System (biometric identification);oehealth (CHU, Yaoundé), e-learning (Univ. Yaoundé I) and e-diplomacy (MINREX) sponsored by the Indian government.
•Some ongoing initiatives:oPrimo (e-Procurement );oTax management, state budget management and public contracts payment management systems ;oJudiciary Management System ;oBiometric passports;oNational Civil Status Registry System
National ICT Research Capacity and List of Institutions
•University of Yaounde I:oFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science;oNational Advanced School of Engineering.
•University of Douala:oFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics;oFaculty of Industrial Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering ;oInstitute of Technology.
•University of Dschang:oFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science and Mathematics;oInstitute of Technology.
•University of Buea:oFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science;oFaculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering;oCollege of Technology.
•University of Maroua:oFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science;o Higher Institute of Sahel.
National ICT Research Capacity and List of Institutions
• University of BamendaoFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science ;oFaculty of Engineering, Department of Computer Engineering .
• University of NgaoundereoFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science;oInstitute of Technology.
• Catholic University of Central AfricaoDepartment of Information System;
• Protestant University of Central AfricaoFaculty of Sciences, Department of Computer Science
• Inter-University Research Centre for Information and Communication Technologies, Yaounde - to promote the sharing of online resources between Cameroonian universities to support scientific research activities (created by Ministry of Higher Education)• Over 80 private institutions running mostly undergraduate programs
“The Internet economy contributes 2% to South Africa’s gross domestic product (GDP). Moreover, this contribution is rising by around 0.1% a year, meaning it should reach 2.5% by 2016”
“The total spent by consumers, small and medium enterprises (SMEs), and Government on products and services via the Internet, as well as on Internet access and infrastructure, is R59-billion”
“The Internet economy will over time begin approaching the size of the construction sector (an estimated R120-billion in 2011), potentially becoming one of the new building blocks of the SouthAfrican Economy”
South Africa spends close to 10% of GDP on ICT goods and services, of which most are imported
SA ICT sector in 2011 was R 187 billion (2020 estimation is R 250 billion)
R&D intensity of South Africa has stabilised at around 0.92% of GDP over the past few years, but is still well below the global norm of 2%
Between 2006 ‐2010 SA produced 20 – 25 PhDs on average in ICT related fields of study
Government, universities and science councils have a keen interest in ICT RDI, but funding and current spending on ICT R&D is limited compared to other fields
• The purpose of the ICT RDI strategy- To create an enabling framework for the systemic advancement of ICT RDI- To support early stage R&D in generic technologies
• The policy acknowledges:- The role of human capital in the ICT sector- The importance of foreign R&D- The need to provide sufficient public and private investment for research- Supporting growth of globally competitive SMME