http://africa.oneworld.net/article/archive/4195 en_GB_DOC http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/160120/1/4195 “If the world is serious about achieving the Millennium Development Goal of halving the number of people living in extreme poverty by the year 2015, ICT must figure prominently in the effort. Everyone – governments, civil society and private sector businesses – has a vital stake in fostering digital opportunity and putting ICT at the service of development.” Kofi Annan, Former Secretary-General, United Nations http://africa.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83320 ACWICT in collaboration with other Women’s organizations from the Eastern Africa Region formed the WSIS-Gender Caucus (Africa Region), a group that worked to ensure that African women’s issues and concerns were incorporated in the WSIS process http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/159058/1/4195 If the Kenyan lawmakers had debated and approved the recent ICT Bill put before parliament, some of the communications issues raised by the recent political crisis in that country would have been more easily dealt with, argues KICTANeT's Alice Wanjira. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/158703/1/4195 An area where young people have an edge is the emerging information society driven by new technologies. Young people are often the leading innovators in the use and spread of information and communications technologies. They adapt quickly and are generally quite hungry for the great quantities of information, locally and globally, that can be provided through emerging information and communication technologies. http://africa.oneworld.net/article/view/158468/1/4195 Changing an economy through introducing ICT is akin to trying to set up a whole row of spinning plates. Without infrastructure, you can’t get media, services and applications. Without media, services and applications, you can’t get critical mass. Without critical mass, there’s no-one to e-mail or exchange videos with, so why bother? And that’s before you get on to all the “nice things” that might happen if African governments delivered their services better