Workshop Resources

It is suggested that all participants should read the documents made available for download here. For getting a good insight into an operational prominent EU-African R&D project for eHealth, please make yourself familiar with the BEANISH project (see "Final preparatory task" on the bottom of this page and the link list).

The document "EU Strategy for Africa: Towards a Euro-African pact to accelerate Africa’s development", published by the European Commission on 12 October 2005, provides a good overview on all aspects of the EU strategy framework, on how the European Commission assesses the current status of the continent and in which fields and how the future cooperation will take place.
See also: "EU and Africa - Towards a Strategic Partnership", policy agreement of the European Council, at its meeting on 15 and 16 December 2005:
"Facilitate a better-connected Africa, to itself and the rest of the world; including by establishing an EU/Africa Infrastructure Partnership, which will be complementary to the new Infrastructure Consortium for Africa (...)."

The second document, "Questions and Answers: The European Union Strategy for Africa”, presents Questions and Answers, with regards to the European Union Strategy for Africa, and was published by the European Commission on 12 October 2005.

The third document "European-African Pact on ICT for Development" is a declaration, that is currently discussed amongst African and European stakeholders engaged in European R&D programmes and "ICT for Development" projects. It refers to the new "EU strategy for Africa" and suggests that its access orientation needs to be complemented with an explicit ICT based enabling strategy.
It also suggests - as a first step - the establishment of an „Information Society Technologies for Development“ Forum, similar to the already planned “Euro-African Business Forum“. The aim: to function as an Observatory for identifying stakeholders and to map out existing initiatives and their potential for partnership in forthcoming EU R&D programmes.

Dr. Nicolas Balacheff recommends the following readings related to his presentation. Please click on the paper titels below to get to the documents.

• 10 issues to think about the future of research on Technology Enhanced Learning
• Learning with the $100 Laptop

Final preparatory task

As a final preparatory task please make yourself familar with the EU-African R&D project BEANISH: "Building Europe Africa collaborative Network for applying IST in Health care Sector".
This project is represented at our workshop through its project manager Prof. Jorn Braa from the University of Oslo and Dr. Rahel Bekele from the Addis Ababa University.
BEANISH is very well documented at at its website, where you find all relevant documents, such as the project workplan, called “D1.1 Revised Technical Annex ([Report]"
This document is a complete description of a prominent EU-African R&D project in eHealth. Anybody who wishes to embark on a similar endeavor can learn a lot from it.

See also the link list on top of this page.