As part of the programme for developing the management and maintenance of railways, the Economic Commission for Africa was entrusted with specific tasks which include those of the Transport, Communications and Tourism ...

The Sub-regional workshop on the preparation of National reports for the Regional and World Conferences on Women, organized by the African Training and Research Centre for Women, was convened from 28 to 30 March 1994, in ...

The Administrative Committee on Coordination (ACC) of the United Nations Secretariat (New York) has a number of Sub-Committees dealing with various substantive issues such as energy, water, science and technology, rural ...

Though relatively young, Universities in Sub-Saharan post-independent Africa have achieved much. They have grown from just 6 institutions in the '60s to more than 100 in 1993 (See ADEA 1999). The increase in number of ...

The International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) is a non-governmental international organization, devoted to the development of international cooperation for the advancement of knowledge, research, ...

Online education is an innovative approach to distance learning in which the World Wide Web (www), the Internet and intranets are effectively utilised. At Eastern and Southern African Management Institute (ESAMI), staff ...

Most African enterprises are of small and medium size and still predominate in agriculture, industry and services. Their development is however, hampered by many problems, including: lack of managerial and technological ...

This paper reviews the main outcomes of the ADF 99 deliberations around e-commerce, places ecommerce in the international context, identifies potential markets and promising products and teleservices for African entrepreneurs, ...

The Second Meeting of the Committee on Natural Resources and Science and Technology (CNRST-2) was held from 30 October to 1st November 2001, at the Headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) ...

The African Virtual Library and Information Network (AVLIN) will be a collaborative of libraries that contribute vision, policy, principles, advocacy and professional services and use information and communications ...