Polytechnic, Yaounde on 09 December 2016. The National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC), as the IST-Africa Initiative partner in Cameroon...
The National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC), as the IST-Africa Initiative partner in Cameroon, organised the IST-Africa Horizon 2020 Workshop at the National Advanced School of Engineering Polytechnic, Yaounde on 09 December 2016.
The National Agency for Information and Communication Technologies (ANTIC), as the IST-Africa Initiative partner in Cameroon,organised the IST-Africa Horizon 2020 Workshop at the National Advanced School of Engineering Polytechnic,Yaounde on 09 December 2016 in cooperation with the International Information Management Corporation (IIMC) (IST-Africa coordinator). This workshop was specifically focused on ICT-39 International partnership building in low and middle-income countries Call with a deadline of 25 April 2017.
The workshop was attended by 52 participants from ANTIC, 5 state Universities (Buea, Douala, Dschang, Maroua and Ngaoundere), the National Advanced School of Engineering (ENSP), representatives from 8 Ministries (Health, Agriculture, Transport, Livestock, Fisheries and Animal Husbandry, Post and Telecommunication, Higher and Secondary Education, Scientific Research and Innovation)
The General Manager’s welcome speech was read by Peter Mokube, Director of Studies and ICT Development, ANTIC.
Each participating organisation presented their current research capacity and areas of most interest for International Cooperation. Areas of thematic interest included: Internet of Things and remote sensing, Health, Agriculture, Cyber Security, Image Processing, Fault tolerance in wireless networks, Geographic information systems, Quantum Computing, automatic language processing, Energy management, Big data and cloud computing and ICT in transportation.
After the last presentation by the IST-Africa coordinator on the focus of the ICT-39-2017 Call, participants formed six groups to identify end-user needs, key stakeholders to be consulted, key stakeholders that would be directly involved in the Innovation activities and other relevant African countries with the following consolidated themes: e(m)Health, e(m)Agriculture and Food Security, Technology-enhanced Learning, Environment , Natural Language Processing and eGovernment.
