ITRealms:
The Africa Civil Society on the
Information Society (ACSIS) has announced the launch of its official web platform aimed at keeping members and the
continent of Africa abreast of developments within the Information Society
(IS), reports ITRealms.
ACSIS president, Dr. Cisse Kane disclosed this saying the
platform would avail lots of African civil societies to be actively involved on
the issues surrounding the Internet and Information and Communication
Technologies (ICTs) community at the continental level.
President of the pan-African network also said that the
new site would serve as an observatory to spur sharing of
developmental information and monitor systems on everything that is happening
in the ICTs ecosystem in Africa.
According to him, ACSIS focus would cover topics and
developments on the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) processes,
follow up as it may concern and affect 54-member states of Africa.
In addition, Mr. Kane said ACSIS is interested in the
inventory and monitoring of WSIS activities, as well as defend Africa's
interests in the field of ICT, creating and strengthening ACSIS-SCASI national coordination.
Equally, ACSIS Platform, he
said would work to improve organization and communication of African ICT
entities and resource persons including Africans in Diaspora; provide training
for African ICT community and people, while structuring partnerships with all
stakeholders, not limited to the governments, private sector, civil society, academia,
local and regional authorities, international organizations, to name a few.
ACSIS
Platform, he further said, would provide advocacy on current
issues such as access, costs, linguistic diversity, local content, IANA
transition, openness, unicity, interoperability, accountability, monitoring the
implementation of the resolutions of the WSIS, electronic waste, human rights,
cyber security, and privacy among others.
The pan African network president went on to state that
their interest filters on best practices, information on ICT events, observatory
of ICT in Africa, country-based profiling of the continent and national,
sub-regional, regional, Internet Governance Forums (IGF). ACSIS thus offers its
various partners a communication tool (events, initiatives, projects, etc.).
Hence, he said, the African Civil Society on the
Information Society is the dedicated to promoting a sustainable information
society open and inclusive.
He pointed out that ACSIS was launched during the first
phase of the WSIS by the will of the representatives of the African Civil
Society that participated at the Geneva Summit process in 2003. This idea was
confirmed with the support of the Economic Commission for United Nations Africa
(ECA), the people and the republic of Tunisia during a meeting in April 2004 in
Tunisia. The meeting also marked the official launch of ACSIS.
Therefore, he said, ACSIS is a platform through which
African civil society could influence policy and guidelines and ensure that
strategies and programmes that promote ICT development, poverty reduction,
appropriation of ICT for sustainable and equitable development, community
participation in policy and strategy development and implementation, etc. meets
expectations and needs of African people.
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