Objectives
The conference will provide a platform for Presiding Officers of African Parliaments to dialogue on legislative issues and priorities that the legislatures have to deal with in the context of the development of an equitable Information Society. More specifically the Conference aims to:
- create a common awareness and understanding among African parliaments regarding the strategic issues that deployment of ICT and the development of the Information Society poses to Africa;
- highlight the role that Parliaments are called upon to play as representatives of the economic, social and linguistic diversities of their citizens;
- promote regional and continental harmonisation of ICT legislative frameworks given the unique “borderless” nature of ICT and the unprecedented opportunities for synergies on a regional and continental level;
- agree on a common agenda for the Pan-African parliamentary initiative meant to provide parliamentarians with analyses, tools and guidelines for the formulation of information society legislative frameworks.
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