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for Papers and conference annoucement<BR><BR>The 8TH West Africa
Information and Communications Technologies Conference<BR>and Exhibition - AITEC
WEST AFRICA 2004<BR><BR>Intensive knowledge-sharing platform for
Results<BR><BR>WHO: AITEC GHANA, Ministry of Communications and Technology and
Leaders in<BR>West African ICT industry will host The 8th West Africa ICT
conference and<BR>Exhibition to facilitate a knowledge and information sharing
platform on the<BR>future of ICT in West Africa and its developmental
impact.<BR><BR>WHAT: A two- day conference<BR>WHEN: <SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1-2 June, 2004<BR><BR>WHERE: Accra
International Conference Center, Accra-Ghana<BR><BR>Call for
Papers<BR><BR>Individuals and organizations are invited to submit proposals for
Conference<BR>and Workshop Presentations at AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004. The theme
for AITEC<BR>2004 is:<BR><BR>"BUILDING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP AND CREATING
OPPORTUNITIES THROUGH ICT"<BR><BR>Presentations will be selected on the basis of
their educational value.<BR>Commercial product or service promotion will not be
permitted in the main<BR>conference programme. Companies can book presentations
in the </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
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style="COLOR: black"><BR>Solutions Showcase for this purpose.<BR><BR>KEY
CONFERENCE SESSIONS<BR><BR>1. ICT's Infrastructure Policy and Action Plans<BR>2.
Business Process Outsourcing - BPO<BR>3. ICT Strategic solutions and
implementation<BR>4. Interconnectivity - Challenges and Solutions<BR>5.
Inter-department relationships and influencing board decision-making<BR>6. Corps
de Spirit -Training and coaching end users in your
organisation<BR><BR><BR><BR>TRAINING WORKSHOP<BR><BR>1. Leadership, management
and entrepreneurship.<BR>2. Mechanism for successful Intranet deployment -
Case study<BR>3. Security - Focus on Spam and viruses<BR>4. Implementing Bar
coding System<BR>5. Information and Knowledge Management.<BR><BR>CONCURRENT
EVENTS<BR><BR>World Summit on Information Society - WSIS Workshop<BR>2nd
National ICT's forum<BR>1st National ICT's Award Gala Night<BR>ICT workshop for
Journalist<BR><BR><BR>Submission Guidelines:<BR>Please email paper abstracts of
not more than 400 words by 28th March 2004.<BR>They should include: the session
title, proposed presentation, presentation<BR>title, author's name, institution,
address, telephone, e- mail and URL.<BR><BR>Abstracts should be e-mailed to
Program Chair ( Gershon Adzadi, PhD) at<BR> </SPAN><SPAN
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href="mailto:gershon@aitecafrica.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">gershon@aitecafrica.com</SPAN></A></SPAN><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> indicating the author's last name in the title of<BR>the
message.<BR><BR>The Organising Committee will evaluate the abstracts. The
Conference<BR>Co-odinating Office will communicate the results of the evaluation
by </SPAN><st1:date Year="2004" Day="26" Month="4"><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">26th<BR>April 2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">.<BR><BR>Languages:<BR>Abstracts and papers may be written
in any of the AITEC WEST AFRICA 2004<BR>official languages: English and
French.<BR><BR>DATES TO REMEMBER<BR><BR></SPAN><st1:date Year="2004" Day="29"
Month="3"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">29 March 2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">: Deadline for receipt of abstracts.<BR></SPAN><st1:date
Year="2004" Day="25" Month="4"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">25 April
2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN style="COLOR: black">: Communication to authors
regarding the approval of the<BR>proposed submissions.<BR>2 May 2004: Deadline
for the submission of papers.<BR></SPAN><st1:date Year="2004" Day="1"
Month="6"><SPAN style="COLOR: black">June 1 - 2 2004</SPAN></st1:date><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">: conference dates<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="COLOR: black"><BR>CONFERENCE REGISTRATION CONTACT<BR>Kwaku
Baffour-Ansah<BR>AITEC </SPAN><st1:country-region><st1:place><SPAN
style="COLOR: black">GHANA</SPAN></st1:place></st1:country-region><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"><BR>Accra-Ghana<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="mailto:kwaku@aitecafrica.com"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">kwaku@aitecafrica.com</SPAN></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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