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PRESENTATION OF THE AFRICAN CIVIL SOCIETY ON THE INFORMATION SOCIETY - ACSIS

Cissé Kane, PhD President ACSIS 20 april 2016

ACSIS PRESENTATION : HISTORY

 Inception 2003 Geneva WSIS  Headquarters Senegal 2008  Militant et voluntarist for inclusion  Awareness national ICT policies  Network of human resources from all African

countries and African Diaspora

 Lobbying, wording, ‘’awareness’’ caucus  Networking, Training, etc.  National, Regional, Global IGF  Tunis 2004, Sharm El Scheikh 2009

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ACSIS PRESENTATION :STRENGHTS

 The Panafrican Network on ICT4D  The biggest CSO in Africa: More than 500

• rganizations including platform organizations

 Strategic partners  Regional coordinators in all African regions  17 national coordination's so far  Presence in more than 40 countries Africa  Member of international coalitions

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ACSIS PRESENTATION : SKILLS

 High Level Expertise for advocacy, training, research,

sensitization, projects implementation on ICT4D

• pportunities advantages and threats in Africa: IG,

cybersecurity, Gender, human rights, technical aspects, Security, e-waste, climate change, Business orientation, digital Africa

 A link between connected and unconnected  Reach grassroots populations at a local level  Local languages  Geographical presence in all regions and countries: eg.

For global projects implementation

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ACSIS ORGANISATION CHALLENGES

 Maintain a multilingual platform (Arabic, Portuguese,

Swahili, Fulani, etc.

 Lack of resources (office, computers, secretariat,

communication costs)

 Communication between members  Training and capacity building of ACSIS staff in core

issues IG, Cybersecurity,

 Strengthening ACSIS Network

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MULTILINGUALISM: challenges

 2 levels : continental vs level  Barrier for access to knowledge society  Barrier to literacy  Lack of of processes ownership  Less inclusiveness and openness (list in english, wsis

forum, etc.)

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MULTILINGUALISM: goals

 Learn from EU example (political body)  Benefit from GIPO experience and support  Developp comprehensive information systems in

at least englesh, french, arabic, portuguese, Spanish (Including website, social medias, et.)

 Move on further to prominent african languages  Develop systems for illiterate people using voice,

touch, etc.

 Reviving IGF dynamic coalition on linguistic

diversity

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ACSIS PROJECTS 2016 AND BEYOND

 ACSIS WEB PLATFORM : nominated WSIS PROJECT

PRIZE 2016 (IG, Observatory, ACSIS members)

 Information and database system (ACSIS National

coordination's, National ICT profile, affordability watch in Africa, IGF)

 Training of web designers for SME  Digital participatory Africa (MAAYA)  Training of staff members on critical issues  Technical capacity building for youth and community

leaders (coders, IPV6, Applications, cybersecurity,)

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Thank You !

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