Conference Program
7th International Conference on Open Access, 2-3 November 2009
Alisa Hotel, Accra, Ghana
| Sunday 1 November, WACREN Meeting | |
| 18:00-19:30 | Joint WACREN Meeting/Open Access Conference 2009 Cocktail |
| Monday 2 November, Research and Education Networking as a development factor | |
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration |
| 09:00-10:15 | Session 1: Opening Session |
| Chairperson: Minister of Communication of the Republic of Ghana | |
| Presentation of the Conference Programme | |
| Boubakar Barry, Conference Chair | |
| Welcome Address | |
| Prof. Clifford Tagoe, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana(speech) | |
| Statement | |
| Prof. Goolam Mohamedbhai,Secretary-General, Association of African Universities (speech) | |
| Keynote presentation | |
| Honorable Gideon Quarcoo, Deputy Minister of Communications of the Republic of Ghana (speech) | |
| 10:15-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:15 | Session 2: Position of the African Subregional Backbone Networks |
| Chairperson: Boubakar Barry | |
| Ubuntunet | |
| Francis Tusubira, CEO, Ubuntunet Alliance (slides) | |
| WACREN | |
| Oumarou Sie, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (slides) | |
| EUMEDCONNECT | |
| Björn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden (slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 12:15-13:15 | Lunch |
| 13:15-14:15 | Session 3: African Academic Networking |
| Chairperson: Andrea Johnson, Carnegie Corporation of New York | |
| Kenya Education Network (KENET), Current & Future Infrastructure; Potential & Emerging Possibilities | |
| Kennedy Asseda, KENET, Kenya (paper, slides) | |
| Achieving Open Acess of Information for Ethiopian Universities, A case of Hawassa University | |
| Kalkidan Alemayehu, Hawassa University, Ethiopia (paper, slides) | |
| SomaliREN | |
| Tom Munyasa, UNDP and USSFS (paper, slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 14:15-15:00 | Session 4: Infrastructure |
| Chairperson: Nnamdi Nwokike, WATRA | |
| The Infinity Submarine Cable project | |
| Robert Woog, IWTGC, USA | |
| The National Communication Backbone in Ghana | |
| Edwin Provencal, NCBC, Ghana (slides) | |
| Reflections about the ongoing Tansformation of the Telecommunications Market | |
| Anders Comstedt, KTH, Sweden (slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 15:00-15:30 | Break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Session 5: International cooperation |
| Chairperson: Iman Abnel Abdelrahman, UbuntuNet Alliance | |
| Postcards From The States: Some Succinct Suggestions From a North American Cyber Security Consultant Sans Portfolio to his African Colleagues | |
| Joe St Sauver, University of Oregon, USA (paper, slides) | |
| Institutional Repository saber.ula.ve - A testimonial perspective | |
| Rodrigo Torrens, Universidad de Los Andes, Venezuela (paper, slides) | |
| The eI-Africa Project | |
| Karine Valin, Sigma Orionis, France (abstract, slides) | |
| FEAST, the Feasibility Study of AfricaConnect and the ERINA4Africa Study on African e-Infrastructures | |
| Bjorn Pehrson, KTH, Sweden (FEAST, ERINA4Africa, slides, sample) | |
| Discussion | |
| 19:00-22:00 | Dinner |
| Tuesday 3 November, Impact on Society | |
| 08:30-10:00 | Session 6: Education, Health and Local Governance |
| Chairperson: Mumuni Dakubu, GARNET | |
| Pedagogical use of Information and communications Technologies in Primary Schools in the South-West Region of Cameroon: The case of some selected private primary schools in Buea municipality | |
| Mbangwana Moses Atezah, ROCARE, Mali (paper, slides) | |
| Utilisation des TIC pour la Formation des Enseignants a l’ENS d’Abidjan : Quels Profils des Formateurs Usagers ? | |
| Bi Séhi Antoine Mian, ENS, Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire (paper, slides) | |
| Tele-Ophthalmology Eye-Health system deployment in Kolda, Senegal, UPC/I2CAT | |
| Jaume Benseny, I2CAT, Spain (paper, slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| 10:30-12:00 | Session 7: ICT opportunities in small businesses |
| Chairperson: Ebi Awotua-Efebo, University of Port Harcourt | |
| Open Access for Socio-Economic Development in Malawi - ICT Entrepreneurship and Supply Chains | |
| Maclean T. Mbepula, Malawi (paper, slides) | |
| ICT effects on Cameroonian firm's productivity | |
| Nana Pierre Valere Nketcha, University of Laval, Canada (paper, slides) | |
| Using Open Source based solutions to bootstrap! | |
| Samuel Ndaula, KTH, Sweden (paper, slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 12:00-13:00 | Lunch |
| 13:00-14:30 | Session 8: ICT for Rural Development |
| Chairperson: Björn Pehrson, KTH | |
| On the Impact of ICT in Rural Areas: Chalinze ICT Center in Tanzania | |
| Amos Nungu, Costech, DIT and KTH, Tanzania (paper, slides) | |
| Viability study for the use of Wireless Communications in Dessie, Ethiopia | |
| Jesus Berdún Peñato, UPC, Spain (paper, slides) | |
| Ghana Telecenter | |
| Edward Opoku-Dapaah, Winston Salem State University, Winston-Salem, NC, USA (paper, slides) | |
| Discussion | |
| 14:30-15:30 | Session 9: Panel Discussion on Capacity Building for the establishment of the African Communication Infrastructure |
| Moderator: Khaled Fourati, IDRC | |
| Panelists: Eric Osiakwan, Björn Pehrson, Francis Tusubira, Aminu Ibrahim, Mumuni Dakubu, Emmanuel Tonye | |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break |
| 16:00-17:00 | Session 10: Concluding panel discussion |
| Moderator: Nii Quaynor, AfNOG | |
| Panelists: Boubakar Barry, Anders Comstedt, Nnamdi Nwokike, Andrea Johnson, Edwin Provencal, Robert Woog | |
| 17:00-17:30 | Session 11: Closing Session |
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