Microsoft Leadership Lecture Series

1st Lecture Featuring Dr. Alioune Sall, Executive Director of the African Futures Institute
January 30, 2008, Bamako, Mali

2nd Lecture Featuring Dr. Alioune Sall, Executive Director of the African Futures Institute
May 19, 2008, Salon Orsay de l’Hôtel Hilton, Paris

Hosted by Microsoft
http://www.icwe.net/microsoft[...]

The Microsoft Leadership Lecture Series will assemble African leaders and masterminds from various backgrounds, who will hold guest lectures at African universities. Topics will cover social and political issues as well as feature great ideas on innovation, technology, education and business on the Continent. The event targets students, academic staff, post-graduates and researchers at African universities, people involved in the economical, political or social life as well as all who wish to actively contribute to Africa’s future. With this unique event series Microsoft actively supports intellectual leadership in Africa.

2nd African ICT Best Practices Forum

April 21 – 23, 2008, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Hosted by Microsoft MEA
www.ictbestpractices.net

This Forum is an initiative of Microsoft, organised in partnership with the Government of Burkina Faso with support from the European Union.

This year the event continued with the overarching theme of e-government while showcasing all new examples of the most innovative projects implemented in the public sector from across Africa, as well as in other emerging market regions. The event, which is now pan-African, presented an impressive display of the novel uses of technology from the African continent and beyond. The Forum presents a unique opportunity for private sector representatives to meet with top representatives of government, donor organisations, civil society and international governmental organisations in an environment that encourages one-on-one communication, allowing them to discuss potential commercial partnerships.

Given the public sector focus of this event, expected participants included Government leaders (heads of state, ministers of government, IT agency heads), International Financial Organisations (such as World Bank, the African Development Bank), Bilateral donor organisations (such as USAID, DFID, GTZ, JICA, SIDA, etc), IGOs (such as the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, NEPAD), the private sector (including partner technology firms, etc) as well as Civil society representatives (e.g. academia and NGOs).

20th EAIE (European Association for International Education) Annual Conference

September 10 – 13, 2008, Antwerp, Belgium
www.eaie.org

The European Association for International Education’s annual conference and exhibition is a key event for all higher education professionals working in the field of internationalisation. At the EAIE Exhibition, which is organised by ICWE on behalf of EAIE since 1991, education-related organisations present their products, services and activities. This is a fabulous networking opportunity for conference participants.

19th EAIE (European Association for International Education) Annual Conference

September 12 – 15, 2007, Trondheim, Norway
www.eaie.org

With over 2200 participants, the 19th Annual EAIE Conference, recently held in Trondheim, was a great success. World-renowned keynote speakers, a high quality programme of sessions and workshops, an informative day on Norwegian higher education provided participants with a wealth of up-to-date information on international education. Additionally, the new Networking Area, the major EAIE Exhibition and special speed networking session all offered great opportunities to make new contacts.

1st African ICT Best Practices Forum

June 7 - 9, 2007, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
Hosted by Microsoft MEA
http://msevents.microsoft.co.za/
ICTBestPracticesForum2007/index.aspx

The first ICT Best Practices Forum, an initiative of Microsoft, drew over 350 delegates from across West and Central Africa. The forum was attended by representatives from government, the private sector, civil society (including NGOs and academia), the press, and international financial and government institutions, including more than 120 high level government officials, 3 heads of state and more than 40 ministers of government. The delegates met in Burkina Faso to discuss strategies and practical solutions that would improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public sector institutions, through the use of information and communications technologies.

More than 20 speakers were given the opportunity to present projects and case studies implemented by their various organisations. In addition to this, a number of organisations made use of the opportunity to showcase their top projects and offerings at the various exhibition stands. Exhibitors and presenters were therefore given the opportunity to increase awareness of the products and services available and create mindshare among the various organisations represented.