CPR Africa, Cape Town, South Africa
Looking back at a decade of communication reform: Looking forward to 2020
19 April 2010 – 21 April 2010
Monday, 19 April 2010
17h00 – 18.30 Registration
19h30 – Conference dinner and Amy Mahan Scholarship Awards.
Tuesday, 20 April 2010
8h30 – 9h00 Coffee and panel co-ordination meetings with sessions chairs.
9h00 – 9h30
Opening (Welcome from the University)
9h30 – 10h30
International Panel
Discussion of global trends with represenatitives from Africa, Latin
America, Asia, Europe and North America
Alison Gillwald, Roxana Barrantes, Rohan Samarajiva, Bob Pepper
10h30
Break
11h00 – 12h30
Panel 1
ICT Effects and
Economic Impact
Chair:
William Melody
Discussant:
Keith Weeks
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Technologies de l’Information et de la Communication et
productivité des Entreprises au Cameroun
Pierre Valere Nketcha Nana & Choub Faha Peguy Christophe
• Economic impact of mobile telephony in African households
welfare
Aileen Agüero
• Development Outcomes of Internet and Mobile Phones Use in
Kenya: The Households’ Perspectives.
Margaret Nyambura Ndung'u & Tim Waema
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The Poverty – ICTs Nexus in Urban and Rural Eastern Africa
and its implications to ICT Policy: Findings from Tanzania
Ophelia Mascarenhas
12h30 – 14h00
Networking Buffet Lunch
14h00 – 15h30
Panel 2
ICT Applications
and Development
Chair:
Helani Galpaya
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The potential of mobile remittances for the bottom of the
pyramid: lessons from emerging Asia
Nirmali Sivapragasam & Aileen Aguero
• An assessment of the use of ICTs in Agricultural Extension
Delivery in Nigeria
Taofeeq Yekinni
• Are mobiles replacing the use of telephony kiosks in Africa?
Discussant:
Kammy Naidoo
Christoph Stork
15h30
Break
16h00 – 17h30
Panel 3
Access and Usage
Chair :
Arsene Kouadio
Discussant:
Laura Recuerovirto
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Les determinants de l’adoption de l’internet en