This summit brings together Heads of State and Governments to address a plenary audience in a visionary session. During the summit, the Smart Africa Board meeting will run in parallel as a closed session attended by members of the Smart Africa Alliance.
Two-day series of plenary and parallel sessions focused on tracking progress of the different pillars and flagships of Smart Africa. The conference will also feature the following events among others.
Organized in partnership with GSMA, the session will bring together Ministers of Finance and ICT, CEOs of Telecom companies, focusing on how governments can put in place an enabling environment that stimulates ICT sector growth.
Focused on home grown solutions, this stream will bring together start-up initiatives with innovative business and technology concepts addressing sustainable development challenges.
Will highlight the latest innovations that are driving Africa’s socioeconomic transformation in the areas of Education, Healthcare, Agriculture, Government and Financial Inclusion.
These are top level governing bodies of the Smart Africa Initiative. Board members are Heads of States and their distinguished special guests. The Steering Committee is composed of Ministers from Member Countries and executives of Member Organizations.
The Plenipotentiary Conference of the International Telecommunication Union (Busan, 2014), considering that, at its 22nd Ordinary Session, the African Union General Assembly decided that it: ENDORSES the key outcomes of the Transform Africa Summit hosted by H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda in October 2013 which adopted the SMART Africa Manifesto highlighting the need to place ICT at the centre of national socio-economic development agenda and SMART Africa Alliance as implementation framework".
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The Assembly, DECIDES to designate H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, to champion the awareness and mobilizing process of Member States towards the effective implementation of the Sharm El Sheikh commitments on water and sanitation States in Africa;
ENDORSES the key outcomes of the Transform Africa Summit hosted by H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda in October 2013 which adopted the SMART Africa Manifesto highlighting the need to place ICT at the centre of national socio-economic development agenda and SMART Africa Alliance as implementation framework..
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The assembly, TAKES NOTE of the Report of His Excellency Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda, on the Kigali Action Plan for Fast Tracking the Implementation of the July 2008 Assembly Declaration, and actualising the A fricaWater Vision 2025; and ENDORSES the Action Plan, the Strategy for Resources Mobilisation and Implementation, and the Roadmap...
EQUALLY RECOGNIZES the progress made under the SMART Africa championed by H.E. Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda within the framework of PICI and WELCOMES the ONE Africa Network Initiative aimed at reducing the costs of electronic communications within regions and ultimately across the continent. IN THIS RESPECT, RECOMMENDS Member States to adopt and roll-out this initiative in furtherance of Africa’s socio-economic integration.
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