The Affiliated Network for Social Accountability in Africa (ANSA-Africa), hosted by Idasa’s Economic Governance Programme held on 9-10th October, 2009 a public dialogue on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Governance in Africa. The objective of the dialogue was to bring together a variety of stakeholders working to advance good governance and development through utilizing ICTs as a means to an end.

The participants included media professionals, ICT experts, and governance experts from civil society. Government officials were invited but did not attend. The primary objective of the dialogue was:

1. To bring together a range of stakeholders to share lessons and experiences on using ICTs for the advancement of good governance, development and improve government service delivery;
2. To conduct scenario planning on ICTs not to predict the future but to encourage active engagement with the significant changes already underway in the field of ICTs and good governance.

Over the next two days, participants shared their valuable expertise of using ICTs to ensure overall good governance and improve service delivery in their respective contexts and engaged with constructing four scenarios of the possible contributions of ICTs to good governance on the African continent.

Report:

• ICTs for Governance Public Dialogue Report

Presentations:

• Citizen’s engagement in enforcing accountability through ICTs [9.72 MB]
• ICT, tranparency and participation in rural governance [1.08 MB]
• grameenphone presentation [2.82 MB]
• Empowering Mobile subcribers towards value added services in the ICT sector [549 KB]