Presentation of CODI 3

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Presentation of CODI 3 3rd meeting of
the Committee On Development Information Addis
Ababa, 12 May 2003
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background information
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ECA restructuring

• harnessing information for development programme
• CODICommittee On Development Information
• one of the seven technical committees
  established in 1997 by ECA Conference of Ministers

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Joint Conference of African Planners,
Statisticians, Population and Information
Specialists
United Nations Regional Cartographic Conference
for Africa
C O D I
Implementation of the African Information
Society Initiative AISI
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CODI1 established 3 sub-committees
statistics geo-information ICT information
communication technologies
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CODI participants

• official government delegations
• comprised of
• statisticians, communication, information and
  geo-information specialists and librarians
• representing
• national statistics offices
• population agencies
• national or university libraries, archives and
  documentation centres
• information and communication institutions
• telecommunications agencies
• national mapping agencies, geo-information
  management organisations,
• etc

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CODI participants

• observers
• representing
• United Nations agencies
• sub-regional, regional and international
  inter-governmental and non-governmental
  organisations
• academic and research institutions
• multinational corporations
• small and medium enterprises
• civil society organisations
• private practitioners . . .
• from Africa and outside

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CODI themes

• CODI 1 July 1999
• harnessing information for development
• gt launched the CODI process
• CODI 2 September 2001
• development information for decision making
• gt included a working group on monitoring and
  measuring good governance
• CODI 3 May 2003
• information and governance

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CODI 3 the details
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choice of CODI 3 theme

• to link development information to on-going
  discourse on governance in Africa
• ECA activities NEPAD - ADF 4
• defining the contribution / role of CODI three
  sectors to
• the vision, the main challenges, the potential
  plan of action
• based on assumptions that information and
  governance are linked
• good governance requires transparency and broad
  community participation in the decision process
• decision and policy analyses require information
• information must be relevant, reliable,
  up-to-date, easily accessible, understandable
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objectives of CODI 3

• to discuss and recommend strategies for providing
  information for good governance to
• member States
• ECA
• partners
• to review the progress made in the implementation
  of the recommendations of CODI-II

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expected outcome

• information and knowledge professionals better
  understand governance issues and processes
• identify information and knowledge requirements
  to face most pressing governance challenges
• propose strategies to put in place adequate
  information resources for the governance
  community
• gt when, where and how needed

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programme structure
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spotlight on governance

• keynote speech on Information Governance by a
  high-profile governance expert
• three plenary sessions on governance topics
• decentralization, community empowerment and the
  role of the civil society
• facilitating public transparent financial
  management and accountability
• involving the private sector
• prelude to ADF 4
• design of the programme, selection of topics
  resource persons
• input to ADF 4 focus group on information

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Heads of delegations
special events
exhibition
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• 1st plenary
• keynote speechgovernance main challenges to
  Africa
• 3 discipline-specific respondents
• three plenary sessions on main issues
• to focus on 3 governance sub-themes
• to establish links between 3 sectors
• parallel sub-committee work
• in-depth look from each sector point of view
• legislative objective of CODI

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• pre-events
• symposium on a permanent committee on spatial
  data infrastructures for Africa
• workshop on open source software for improved
  administration in Africa
• meeting of the African Stakeholders Network
  (ASN) of the UN ICT Task Force
• AVLIN advisory committee
• workshop on technical aspects of building digital
  libraries and electronic information
• working group on statistics and governance

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• special events
• AISI Media Awards and launch of the African
  regional node of the G8 Dot Force IeDRN
• ICT seminar series for Ethiopian parliamentarians
• general assembly of the African association of
  Linux user groups
• presentation of the Africa version of Child Info
  UNICEF software
• GKP market place
• Addis Ababa University programme for the
  enhancement of research information
• workshop on spatial data content standards

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• post-events
• workshop on corporate GI coordination
• Ethiopian national SDI stakeholders workshop
• workshop on institutional and technical issues
  for GIS managers with a vision on SDIs
• second media forum media and capacity building
  in the information society
• inaugural meeting of ABSA, Advisory Board for
  Statistics in Africa

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partners supporting specific activities

• Statistics
• DFID
• OECD Geo-information
• Paris 21 EIS Africa
• the World Bank Ethiopian Authorities
• FGDC
• GSDI
• ISO
• ITC, the Netherlands
• Leica Geosystems
• Maps Geosystems
• Oakar Sevices Ltd, Kenya

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partners supporting specific activities

• ICT
• La Francophonie
• Global Knowledge Partnership, GKP
• IDRC, Canada
• IICD, the Netherlands
• Government of Canada, Industry Canada
• Open Society Initiative (offices for West and
  South Africa)
• SDC, Switzerland
• UN ICT Task Force

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I wish you a fruitful meeting thank you
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