Hi people<br><br>Unless otherwise, the Africa Regional Action Plan for the Knowledge Economy - ARAPKE - actually has that particular project of subregional CS training centers. I recall part of the objectives was to even include translations of global issues to subregional African languages and specificities. <br><br>We were then convinced that putting such initiatives under the continental umbrella was more likely to ensure operationability and sustainablilty. But the governmental process is a long one...<br><br>If any thing were to be happening on that project I would have known.<br><br>Because I originally wrote the proposal and it has been 3 years already...<br><br>Now, I think that time has come for the CS lead. In certain areas, if the CS leads, governments will follow...<br><br>Nnenna<br><br><b><i>Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px;
padding-left: 5px;"> Kwasi Boakye-Akyeampong <kboakye1@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:<br><br>Are there sufficient incentives for these "governments and other<br>bodies" to fund such centres in the first place, and to make the<br>centres operate with integrity, i.e. so that they select<br>representative who are truly representative of the respective <br>regions rather than of some influential special interests?<br><br>Greetings,<br>Norbert.<br><br><br>-- <br>Norbert Bollow <nb@bollow.ch> http://Norbert.ch<br>President of the Swiss Internet User Group SIUG http://SIUG.ch<br>Working on establishing a non-corrupt and<br>truly /open/ international standards organization http://OpenISO.org<br>____________________________________________________________<br>Y</nb@bollow.ch></kboakye1@yahoo.co.uk></blockquote><br><p>
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