Dear Colleagues, We have a great line-up of knowledge-sharing content at this year's AITEC East Africa Summit at Oshwal centre Wednesday-Thursday next week. Highlights include: Ø An Open Source Forum in partnership with the ict@innovation programme run by FOSSFA and GIZ Ø The Skills Gap Forum in partnership with LIWA Trust and Digital Age Institute, which aims to develop an industry-academia action plan to address the ICT skills gap Ø The opening session will focus on the Smart Cities theme of the Summit, with presentations by Dr Ndemo, IBM's smarter cities champion and representatives from Tatu City and Ghana Cyber City Ø In addition, there are two Smart City Forums Ø RIM is going to unveil its new BlackBerry 10 roadmap Ø Cisco is doing a workshop on "Collaboration for smarter workplaces and smarter cities" Ø The Summit will once again have strong information security content, with training workshops by Silensec and presentation forums, including one in partnership with ISACA Ø Ushahidi is organising a Smart Communities Forum to bring together a range of organisations to share recent experience in mobile and other applications for community development projects The full programme is in the attached Event Guide. Participation in this information-rich programme is free of charge, but we request registration in advance at: http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/81 I look forward to seeing you there. Sean PS There are still places available at our Silver Anniversary Celebration Dinner on Tuesday night. Come and join us in celebrating 25 years of achievement in the ICT sector. Book spaces at http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/101 Sean Moroney Chairman AITEC Africa seanm@aitecafrica.com UK Tel: +44(0)1480-880774 UK Mobile: +44(0)7973-499224 Kenya Mobile: +254(0)721-845674 Mozambique Mobile: +258-826181618 Skype: seanmoroney seanm@aitecafrica.com<mailto:seanmoroneyseanm@aitecafrica.com> www.aitecafrica.com<http://www.aitecafrica.comfollow/> Follow us on twitter: http://twitter.com/aitecafrica Forthcoming Events AITEC East Africa ICT Summit<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/81> AfriHealth<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/94> AITEC Southern Africa ICT summit<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/85> Aitec Banking & Mobile Money West Africa Lagos<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/90> AITEC Banking & Mobile Money West Africa Accra<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/91> AITEC Broadcast,Film & Music Africa<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/93> AITEC Banking & Mobile Money COMESA<http://aitecafrica.com/event/view/92> Join us in Celebrating 25 years of Achievement in African ICT development [Celebratory dinner for the region's ICT Community to mark AITEC's 25th Anniversary]<http://www.aitecafrica.com/event/view/101> Click<http://www.aitecafrica.com/event/view/101> to be part of the celebration.