GOVERNMENTS OF AFRICA ONLINE

East Africa

Djibouti -- Ethiopia -- Eritrea -- Kenya -- Somalia -- Tanzania -- Uganda

North Africa

Algeria -- Chad -- Egypt -- Libya -- Mali -- Mauritania -- Morocco -- Niger -- Sudan -- Tunisia

West Africa

Benin -- Burkina Faso -- Cameroon -- Cote D'Ivoire -- Gambia --Ghana -- Guinea (Conakry) -- Guinea Bissau -- Liberia -- Nigeria -- Senegal -- Sierra Leone -- Togo

Central Africa

Angola -- Burundi -- Central African Republic -- Republic of the Congo -- Democratic Republic of Congo -- Equatorial Guinea -- Gabon -- Rwanda

Southern Africa

Botswana -- Lesotho -- Malawi -- Mozambique -- Namibia -- South Africa -- Swaziland -- Zambia -- Zimbabwe

Oceania

Cape Verde -- Comoros -- Madagascar -- Mauritius -- Seychelles --

Sao Tome and Principe

A WELCOME MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF UNARETE-AFRICA

Information is a fundamental ingredient of human development. Access to information technology is therefore an important strategic component of human development, especially in a global society, where communication and information exchange have become decisive competitive advantages.

The ICT revolution means different realities to different parts of the world. To some daily communication through mobile telephones, e-mails, internet, radio, television, text messaging and faster access to information, knowledge, images and sounds, is given and therefore taken for granted. To others accessing simple public information is a privilege you may come after a journey of hundreds of miles and a fee or a bribe. Every day, the technological gap between rich areas and poor areas of the world, excludes millions of people from the global benefits that accrue with scientific, social, cultural and technological advancement.

The fast growth of digital technologies offers opportunities to produce, purchase, store and share information that stimulates progress. These opportunities need to be shared and made equally available to all. This is the motivation for our collective actions at UNARETE-Africa and the entire UNARETE family.

UNARETE believes that digital technologies and the Internet might balance the opportunities for every inhabitant of the world, and should not represent a further element of discrimination. Web digital technologies should be used to reduce distances and differences. We think that Communication is a fundamental right; exclusion from the Net, for political, economic, social or geographic reasons, is a disadvantage which, in the future, will cause deeper and deeper isolation.

We are keen on working with communities in Africa for the creation and sustenance of a vibrant communication culture and facilitative policy environments, which to us are more primary than the development of ICT infrastructure. UNARETE-Africa works to stimulate communication needs in order to activate, as a second step, the tools for satisfying them - ICTs. 

UNARETE fights for making the Internet more and more a shared, fully free resource of everyone on Earth; and through this sharing; we will together promote cross-cultural and cross-border understanding for a shared human vision.

Welcome to UNARETE-Africa and let us know what we can do together for a better world.

Simekha JME

President – UNARETE-Africa

UNARETE is an International Association with headquarters in Rome, Italy.  It was established to harness individual, communal, national, continental, and international energies and resources, and direct these at expanding digital democracy, and reducing the digital divide through progressive

 transformations in culture and leadership.