Draft provisional annotated agenda: theme of the meeting

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UNITED NATIONS

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COUNCIL

Distribution: LIMITED E/ECA/DISD/CODI.3/1 21 April 2003 Original: Enelish

ECONOMIC COMMISSION FOR AFRICA

Third Meeting of the Committee

on Development Information (CODI) Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

10 - 17 May 2003

DRAFT PROVISIONAL AGENDA

Theme of the Meeting: « Information and Governance »

Plenary Sessions

1 Opening

2. Election of officers and organization of work

3 Key introductory panel: " Information and Governance "

4. Decentralization, community empowerment, and the role of the Civil Society 5. Facilitating transparent public financial management and accountability

6. Involving the private sector

Sub-committees sessions

7. Sub-committee on Information and Communication Technology including Library 8. Sub-committee on Statistics

9. Sub-committee on Geo-information

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Plenary sessions

10 Reports of the Sub-committees 11. Date and venue of next meeting 12 Any other business

13. Adoption of the report and closing session

Sub-committees sessions (parallel sessions)

ncation Technologies and Library (CODI-ICT)

7. Sub-committee on Information and Communication

7 1 Opening . . .

7.2 Election of officers and organization ofwork

7.3 Report of activities PODIII

7 3 1 Report on recommendations from ~ ^j^p <- atAC) on the implementation

t> r+ fthp African Technical Advisory (^omrmucc \n.xi-y^j r

7 3 3 pSe-epo- onAfricanVirtualUbrary andInformationNetwork(AVON)

74 Rep'ort of Mrican Stakeholders' Network (ASN) meeting

7 4 ICT in support of governance; opportunities and challenges

7.5 GKP Africa Day 7.5.1 Opening

7.5.2 ICT & governance

7.S SS eiectron.c d1ScusS1on on e-govemance

7 5.2.3 GKP lessons learnt from Asia

7.5.2.4 Exchange of experiences actionolan

7.5.2.5 Strategies for promoting e-governance. an Afncan action plan 7 S 3 Progress in ICT polices

7 5 3 1 ECA's progress report onNlCI implementation

regulation in Africa

7 54 information & Knowledge Developments

' 7 5 4 1 National SCAN-ICT baseline studies

7 5 4 2 The International e-Development Resource Network Ie 75 43 Report on the value of library services in development

;£;S£S?2£S^^a^£2oLoO3 & work pro.amme

for the biennium 2004-2005

7.5.5 Closing 7 6 Any other business

7.7 Adoption of report and closing session

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8. Sub-committee on Statistics

Li S of officers, adoption ofthe •*££%»*»*» ofwork

-.3 Country reports (for noting and P^el_^s^at.nnq of the seC0nd meeting of the sub-

8.4 comrritteeofCODIonst^stics_^ ^^ ^ ^^ of National Accounts (SNA93) in

Africa

8 6 Presentations on plenary themes. mance for Community Empowerment

861 SSSation^ncluding the role ofthe Civil Society

8 6.2 Public Financial Management and Accountability

8.6.3 The role of the private sector

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8.7.2.3 The World Bank (Trust ^nd) PrOgramme of work for the 3 8 Report on ECA statistical activities during 2002-200, and Frog

biennium 2004-2005

of the Sub—nee and c.os.ng sess.n

9. Sub-committee on Geo-information

9 \ Section, orgamzation ofwork anddection of officers

9.3 ^^^^Z^ZtZmL and .mplementation of resolutions of CODI.2

9.4 9.5

9.5.2 African Reference Framework (AFREF)

9 6 Technical Issues: New trends and developments, with special reference to:

9.6.1 The SDI African Handbook 9.6.2 AFREF implementation 9.7 New trends and developments

9.7.1 Internet mapping

9 72 High-resolution imagery

97 3 New ways of data collection with GIS

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9 8 Any other business

9.9 Adoption of report and closing session

Special Events:

SEl- Symposium on establishing Permanent Committee on Spatial Data

S^ToXho^en source software for unproved admiration in Africa

SE3- AVLIN Advisory Committee

qpa- African Stakeholders'Network (ASN) meeting

IS': WorkThop oa technical aspects of building digital libraries and electronic

information

SE6' Working Group on Statistics and Governance

SET AISI Media Awards and launch ofthe African regional node ofthe IeDRN

SE8 ■ Seminar Series for Ethiopian Parliamentarians

- General Assembly of the African Association ofLinux Users Group

: Sesentdon ofthe Africa version ofthe CHILD INFO UNICEF software

WnrkshoD on spatial data content standards

IddtZba University Library Programme for the Enhancement of Research

Information

SE13- Workshop on corporate GI coordination

- EthioDian National SDI Stakeholders' workshop

- Sol Media Forum: media and capacity building in the information society

^S^^ technical issues for GIS managers w*h a vision

on SDls

Exhibition - Demonstrations and poster sessions EX1: GKP Market Place

EX2: Country reports upon request