News & Events
23/05/2012 - On May 10, a high level meeting chaired by President Donald Kaberuka, former British Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, and Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the Web Foundation elicited a lively debate among 10 Ministers of Education and Science and Technology from Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Morocco, Senegal, Sierra Leone and Uganda; who met with officials of Intel, Cisco, Alcatel-Lucent, HP, Adobe, and Microsoft among other leading technology companies in Africa. Other country governments represented were Benin, Burundi, Egypt, Ivory Coast, Mauritius, Nigeria and Rwanda.
Categories: Ethiopia, Financial Crisis, Information & Communication Technology, Education, President's Corner
17/05/2012 - The African Development Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a total of USD 13.95 million (UA 9.00 million ) through a grant mechanism on 16 May 2012. The grant will enable the African Community of Practice for Managing for Development Results (AfCoP) to mainstream Managing for Development Results (MfDR) into the policies and strategies of RMCs and RECs.
Categories: Information & Communication Technology
15/05/2012 - The conference was co-hosted by Anadach Group, TeleHealth Society of Kenya and the Kenyan government, and was sponsored by the World Bank Group/IFC, the African Development Bank (AfDB), ICME/Magellan, FVC/Polycom, JSI, Safaricom Business and Pfizer. It was one of the first multi-stakeholder events focusing on e-Health in Africa that took place on the continent. Their goal was to exchange ideas, discuss innovative solutions and create collaborations in e-Health.
Categories: Kenya, Health, Information & Communication Technology
08/05/2012 - The President of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Dr. Donald Kaberuka, the former British Prime Minister Rt. Hon Gordon Brown, and renowned computer scientist, and founder of the World Wide Web Foundation, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will convene a high level meeting on Education and Technology entitled “Connecting Africa” at the 22nd World Economic Forum (WEF) on Africa on 10 May, 2012.
Categories: Education, Information & Communication Technology, President's Corner
24/04/2012 - The African Development Bank is organizing a workshop on 23 May to follow up from the recommendations of the Science, Technology and Innovation in Action parallel session on “eLearning, mLearning, eHealth and mHealth” stemming from the 1st Africa Forum on Science Technology and Innovation (STI).
Categories: Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development
17/04/2012 - On 19 April, the African Development Bank (AfDB) is launching a competition for innovative and sustainable information and communication technology (ICT) solutions for the health sector in Africa.
Categories: Kenya, Health, Human and Social Development, Information & Communication Technology
12/04/2012 - More than 30 African ministers of education and science attending the First African Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) for Youth Employment, Human Capital Development and Inclusive Growth, unanimously pledged to put STI policies, strategies, programs and plans into action over the next five years.
Categories: Kenya, Education, Information & Communication Technology, Human and Social Development, Youth, President's Corner
06/04/2012 - The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) and YES BANK Limited, India, held a joint Indo-African Knowledge Exchange Workshop on “Regulation of Cross-Border Mobile Payments and Regional Financial Integration” at the Hotel Trident, Mumbai on 29 and 30 March 2012.
Categories: India, Information & Communication Technology, Regional Integration
03/04/2012 - La session ministérielle du premier Forum africain sur la Science, la Technologie et l'Innovation (STI) s'est ouverte ce matin à Nairobi (Kenya), en présence du président du Kenya, Mwai Kibaki et de plusieurs ministres ou leurs représentants de près de vingt-cinq pays africains. Le président du Groupe de la Banque africaine de développement, Donald Kaberuka, était présent, ainsi que la directrice générale de l'UNESCO, Irina Bokova et des représentants de la Commission économique de l'Union africaine et de la Commission économique des Nations-unies pour l'Afrique (UNECA)
Categories: Kenya, Education, Human and Social Development, Information & Communication Technology, Youth, President's Corner
29/03/2012 - The first Africa Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) will take place from April 1-3, 2012 at the Intercontinental Hotel in Nairobi. Hosted by the Government of Kenya, it will include an Experts’ Meeting (April 1-2) and a Ministerial Conference (April 3), and will highlight the need to invest in this key sector to foster human capital development, inclusive growth, and provide job opportunities for youth and women.
Categories: Kenya, Education, Human and Social Development, Information & Communication Technology, Youth
