This year’s African Economic Conference to focus on #Knowledge & #Innovation – Nov 1-3 in Addis Ababa #2014AEC The critical role which knowledge and innovation should play in Africa’s development will be the focus of this year’s African Economic Conference (AEC) scheduled to take place from November 1-3 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Organized each year by the #AfricanDevelopmentBank, United Nations Development Programme and UN Economic Commission for Africa, the conference will provide a unique opportunity to explore how to harness Africa’s knowledge industry for the continent’s transformation and inclusive growth. The conferees, usually policy-makers, researchers, development practitioners and cohorts from Africa and elsewhere, will explore extant knowledge generation approaches and frameworks, as well as the efficacy of Africa’s knowledge and innovation institutions in developing needed skills, technology and innovation capacities. They will also discuss policies required in knowledge generation and innovation to achieve Africa’s transformation agenda. The AEC 2014 theme, “Knowledge and Innovation for Africa’s Transformation”, draws from the African Union Agenda 2063 and the African Common Position on its Post-2015 Development Agenda which identify science, technology and innovation as key pillars for Africa’s development. {...] Read the full article: bit.ly/1x5fPUF
Posted on: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 13:41:35 +0000
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